Helen Dixon is all about sticking to her guns. Since 2018, under the one stop shop system of Europe’s privacy and data safety framework GDPR, it has fallen to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to supervise some of the largest tech firms in the world with EU headquarters in Dublin; Google, Meta, AirBnB, eBay. And that is not always a popular place to be. Last year the DPC imposed fines of more than €1 billion for data protection infringements, accounting for more than a third of the estimated €2.92 billion sum issued by regulators across Europe. The largest single penalty…

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