Simon McGarr delivered a workshop last week at the ERA summer course on data protection, focused on how to take the regulations and laws of the e-privacy directive and cookie compliance and turn them…

A photo taken at a protest, an automated comparison with a database containing more than 600,000 faces, and a criminal investigation targeting an innocent person. We filed a complaint, and the DSB rul...

Potentially seismic lawsuit draws comparisons to 1990s pursuit of tobacco industry

Simon explained that this is particularly important at a time when AI is rapidly increasing the capabilities available to hackers, and that as the threat

Simon McGarr spoke live on RTÉ Radio 1 about TikTok’s decision not to appear before the Oireachtas Media Committee following the M9 crash, in which five

Simon McGarr, Solicitor at McGarr Solicitors and Director at Data Compliance Europe

Under GDPR and the Irish ePrivacy Regulations, obtaining consent is only half the job. One of the questions I regularly help organisations consider as part of

Many organisations think GDPR compliance means having a privacy policy on their website and hoping they never hear from the Data Protection Commission. Alas, this is not the case.

When a six-figure personal injury compensation award is reported in the news, it is easy to forget compensation usually reflects the wider impact that the injury has on a person's life. 

The mistake many employers make is asking "Can we install this CCTV camera?" GDPR asks a different question: "Can you justify this CCTV camera?" 

Simon McGarr appeared on The Echo Chamber podcast to discuss the law surrounding biometric data and AI in Ireland and in Europe.