Hahahahahaha, the Irish Data Protection Commission is and always has been a sick joke.

Now they’ve just become a parody of themselves.

If you’re surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention:

https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/#luck-of-the-irish

In the EU, the Irish DPC doesn’t enforce GDPR, @noybeu does.

CC The muppets at @EUCommission – your Single Market for Institutional Corruption is doing great, sweetie.

#ireland #DataProtectionCommission #DPC #dataProtection #GDPR #EU #corporateCapture #BigTech #SiliconValley #Meta #technoFascism https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/115428228176439210

Hahahahahaha, the Irish Data Protection Commission is and always has been a sick joke.

Now they’ve just become a parody of themselves.

If you’re surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention:

https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/#luck-of-the-irish

In the EU, the Irish DPC doesn’t enforce GDPR, @noybeu does.

CC The muppets at @EUCommission – your Single Market for Institutional Corruption is doing great, sweetie.

#ireland #DataProtectionCommission #DPC #dataProtection #GDPR #EU #corporateCapture #BigTech #SiliconValley #Meta #technoFascism https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/115428228176439210

📆 Join the meeting of the Preservation Registries Special Interest Group, Sept 4th, 2025! All are welcome! Curious about format registries in digital preservation? Join our session on Thursday, Sept 4th at 17:00 UTC to discuss the maintenance and use of format registries in #digital preservation.

This open forum welcomes anyone interested in format and software registries - no #DPC membership or prep needed.

Find out more: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/447/-/preservation-registries-special-interest-group

📆 Join the meeting of the Preservation Registries Special Interest Group, Sept 4th, 2025! All are welcome! Curious about format registries in digital preservation? Join our session on Thursday, Sept 4th at 17:00 UTC to discuss the maintenance and use of format registries in #digital preservation.

This open forum welcomes anyone interested in format and software registries - no #DPC membership or prep needed.

Find out more: https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/447/-/preservation-registries-special-interest-group

My god it has been a very long road and every streetlamp a gaslight

Thanks to people like @ElaineEdwards and @klillington and many more who stood up at the time

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/06/12/department-of-social-protection-fined-550000-over-facial-scans/

#privacy #dpc#PSC