The Irish Supreme Court, on 24 July 2025, issued a landmark decision offering greater clarity on non-material damages in the context of privacy claims under the General Data Protection Regulation ...

Elon Musk’s X is being taken to court in Ireland for using Europeans’ data to train AI models, RTE reported late on Tuesday. The development relates to the social media platform’s decision last month ...

Microsoft, Adobe Stock. Dr Johnny Ryan and Joe O’Brien pictured outside the Four Courts in Dublin, courtesy image. Microsoft is set to face the first-ever class action lawsuit under Ireland's recently ...

Big Tech take note: In what looks like a meaningful -- and long overdue -- reforming step, the European Commission has committed to dial up its monitoring of how data protection authorities at the EU ...

GDPR protections for 450 million EU residents face a critical week as EU Council diplomats advance a Digital Omnibus deal that would let advertising tracking IDs escape data law for some processors, ...

In the five years since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation came into force, what have been the main learnings for business, and what will the future hold? On 25 May 2023, the ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million ($263.6M) over General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations arising from a 2018 personal data breach impacting 29 million ...

In their International Litigation column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky discuss how US courts address the tension between the expansive scope of US discovery and the restrictive framework ...

An 11th-hour amendment to the government of Ireland’s Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 will serve to “muzzle” people looking to speak out about how Big Tech and public bodies ...

The Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin, Ireland - home to a pack of multinational tech companies' European headquarters. (Image: Shutterstock) Ireland - home to the European headquarters of a throng of ...

Europe's top privacy body resolved one of the most contested legal questions in artificial intelligence on Tuesday, ruling that GDPR applies in full whenever web scraping involves EU residents' ...