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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland’s data regulator defended its provisional order to halt Facebook user data transfers to the United States from the European Union, telling the Irish High Court on Thursday such decisions were not typically subject to court oversight.
FILE PHOTO: General view of the Facebook logo at its EMEA headquarters at Grand Canal Square in the Docklands amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Dublin, Ireland, October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the EU’s lead regulator for Facebook, issued the order in August after Europe’s highest court ruled that a transatlantic data transfer framework known as Privacy Shield was invalid.
Irish court to assess Norwegian Air business plan on Jan 22
Written by Business World, on 18th Dec 2020. Posted in Ireland
The official overseeing Norwegian Air s protection from its creditors in Ireland will present a report to the Irish High Court on Jan. 22, having received a business plan from the cash-strapped airline.
The airline obtained creditor protection this month from courts in Norway and Ireland, giving it some breathing space to restructure its massive debts. Its main aircraft-owning subsidiaries are Irish and its parent company, Norwegian Air ASA, is registered in Norway.
Norwegian s shareholders endorsed a financial rescue plan on Thursday and it now faces difficult negotiations with creditors as it tries to reduce its debt and liabilities of 66.8 billion Norwegian crowns ($7.8 billion). It must also find investors and lenders willing to put up fresh cash.
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Irish data regulator defends order to halt Facebook data flow
Written by Business World, on 17th Dec 2020. Posted in Technology
Ireland s data regulator defended its provisional order to halt Facebook user data transfers to the United States from the European Union, telling the Irish High Court on Thursday such decisions were not typically subject to court oversight.
Ireland s Data Protection Commission, the EU s lead regulator for Facebook, issued the order in August after Europe s highest court ruled that a transatlantic data transfer framework known as Privacy Shield was invalid.
Facebook called for a judicial review of the commission s decision and in September Ireland s High Court temporarily froze the order to allow such a review, which began on Tuesday.
VICTIMS of sex abuse in schools face an official “culture of obstruction and denial” – leaving many survivors to die without redress, a new official report for the Government states.
In a scathing section on huge delays in handling historic abuse cases in schools, Dr Conor O’Mahony, who teaches children’s rights law, says that money spent on lawyers’ fees to defend redress claims would be better spent on meeting the support needs of survivors of abuse.
The report from Professor O’Mahony, who is special rapporteur on child protection, has just been published by the Department of Children. His comments relate to the case brought to the European Court of Human Rights by Cork woman, Louise O’Keeffe.