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Last year, TikTok was fined €530m by the DPC and ordered to bring its data transfers to China into line with EU privacy law. The High Court stayed the ruling as the platform argued the damage caused would be in the billions. That stay is now set for an urgent Supreme Court appeal.

The Oireachtas body challenged a 2024 enforcement notice issued by the data watchdog over how it handled a subject access request in 2018. The legal case is now settled but the DPC says that the original complaint process remains live.

A senior manager raised concerns in February about how sensitive personal details in applications forms for a 2025 bursary were handled internally. The agency says the issue was examined and resolved.

The 2018 phishing cyberattack allowed unauthorised persons to gain control of up to six university staff accounts. One of the compromised accounts was then used to assist in a case of fraud.

The Currency understands the challenge relates to the watchdog’s inquiry into Apple’s processing of personal data for targeted advertising.

The body overseeing the running of the Dáil and Seanad is appealing an enforcement notice brought against it by the data protection watchdog.

The Data Protection Commission has accepted technical proposals by social media giant Meta on the transfer of data from European users to the US after imposing a record fine on the Irish-headquartered firm.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, is appealing the biggest fine ever handed down by the Irish data regulator.