'Outrage' as former tech giant lobbyist appointed to Data Protection Commission 

The cross-European group of privacy experts and digital wellbeing advocates expressed strong 'misgivings' regarding the appointment.

A cross-European group of privacy experts and digital wellbeing advocates have expressed “outrage” at the decision to appoint a former lobbyist for a tech giant to the Data Protection Commission (DPC).

The grouping, which includes the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Noyb — privacy litigant Max Schrems’s main advocacy organisation — and 42 others, wrote to the two DPC commissioners already in situ, Dale Sutherland and Des Hogan, this week to express their strong “misgivings” regarding the appointment.