The Currency talks to Ireland's top law firms about how their disputes practices have mushroomed into multi-disciplinary teams that take on everything from billion-euro data privacy suits to the barter account at RTÉ.
There is no projection in which the demand for data will fall in the coming decades. Creating data, housing data, manipulating data, deriving value from data - we are moving into an era when economic progress is going to become coincident with data.
The Chinese-owned social media platform has already made it clear it is not happy with the regulator's decision. Now TikTok has lodged a judicial review aimed at overturning the Data Protection Commission's findings.
A long overdue data overhaul is a key part of modernising the legal system. Especially if Ireland is selling itself as a post-Brexit centre for dispute resolution.
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