Data Protection Report Published

The Annual Report highlights:

• Significant progress in building the capacity and expertise of the Office through widespread recruitment, including specialist legal, technical, investigatory and communications experts
• Increase in annual budget to €4.7m, from €3.65m last year
• Establishment of a Special Investigations Unit to carry out targeted and pro-active investigations
• Establishment of a Forensics Technical Lab to assist in technical audits and investigations
• 932 complaints investigated, with over 60% relating to access rights and 11% to electronic direct marketing, of which 94% were resolved amicably
• A wide range of prosecutions and audits undertaken in 2015
• *2,376 data breach notifications
• 14,427 emails and 16,173 telephone calls dealt with via dedicated email and call centre facility
• Far-reaching developments at EU level including EU Court of Justice rulings and the EU General Data Protection Regulation which will come into force from May 2018
• Focus on building engagement with tech-multinationals

Read the full data protection report here

Legal-Island's Annual Data Protection Update 2016 is on Thursday 29th September 2016.