Data protection and ePrivacy

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This subtopic contains an overview of the EU data protection and cybersecurity regulatory framework. It is aimed both at lawyers who need a high level overview of the legal framework and key knowledge in this area, and who may not be specialised in data protection, and at the more experienced data protection and ePrivacy practitioner looking for in-depth practical guidance on particular issues.

Data protection

Data protection law in the EEA, ie the EU and Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein is intended to ensure information about living individuals (within the definition of ‘personal data’) is used fairly and responsibly. To this end, data protection laws impose a large number of obligations on those ‘processing’ personal data (and on controllers of such processing) and grant rights to those whose personal data is processed (the ‘data subjects’). In summary, ‘processing’ includes doing almost anything with personal data, including storing, sharing, deleting or using it.

This part of the subtopic addresses Irish and EU data protection law, which is primarily governed by the EU General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR), which is given further effect in Ireland by the

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