Commission facing Big Tech's 'very well-resourced legal teams' in data protection cases

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is not standing on a “neutral field” as it battles to regulate to the “extent that we want to”, one of its commissioners has said.

Des Hogan told an Oireachtas committee on Tuesday that his organisation stands up against “very well-resourced legal teams” when big tech firms challenge the fines it has imposed for breaching data protection rules, with the judicial reviews being taken against most of those decisions “a difficulty”.

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