MEP Maite Pagazaurtundúa explained the delegation was involved Ireland’s DPC is bottleneck of GDPR enforcement.
Adhering to a three-working day go to to Dublin very last 7 days, a delegation of MEPs has referred to as for an unbiased review of Ireland’s Facts Protection Commission (DPC) right after concerns all-around the performance of the ‘one-stop shop’ mechanism.
Less than GDPR’s ‘one-halt shop’ system, tech giants these types of as Meta and Google are currently ready to manage a lot of their GDPR responsibilities in 1 EU nation.
This implies that a lot of details protection investigations tumble to regulators in countries in which Major Tech providers have European headquarters – specifically Eire and Luxembourg.
The Irish DPC acts as the EU’s guide details supervisor for several important US tech players that have European headquarters in Ireland, which include Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter. Final September, WhatsApp was issued the DPC’s largest at any time fine for breaching GDPR.
Nonetheless, it has extended been criticised by some about how it has been managing GDPR grievances versus Major Tech companies.
In the modern pay a visit to to Dublin, MEP Maite Pagazaurtundúa mentioned that the delegation “remains concerned by the Irish facts defense authority getting a bottleneck of the 1-cease-store mechanism”.
Phone calls for review of Irish DPC
Pagazaurtundúa was on a three-working day go to to Dublin alongside with colleagues the European Parliament. Throughout their remain, they satisfied key figures and stakeholders of facts safety in Ireland.
This involves Minister for Justice Helen McEntee, TD, details security commissioner Helen Dixon, a Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, and representatives from tech companies this sort of as Meta, TikTok and Microsoft.
Pagazaurtundúa claimed that even though they ended up capable to have “a quantity of extremely worthwhile and insightful exchanges”, the delegation believes an independent of DPC’s procedures and actions “would be of help”.
“We aid a quantity of recommendations endorsed by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice in their report on GDPR enforcement in Eire.”
Other users of the delegation of MEPs viewing Ireland provided Birgit Sippel of Germany, Paul Tang of the Netherlands, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield of France and Clare Daly of Ireland.
“Addressing these problems is essential for the safety of individual knowledge and, by extension, the essential legal rights, of hundreds of millions of EU citizens,” Pagazaurtundúa, who led the delegation, added.
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