Spotlight On The Irish Data Protection Commission’s Annual Report: Key Findings

What You Need to Know

On 30 June 2026, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) released its 2025 annual report (“Report”).¹ The Report covers the eighth year of the DPC’s enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).

Unsurprisingly, it was an exceptionally busy year for the DPC and the Report details key enforcement and complaints developments, supervisory engagements, the DPC’s international activities as well as the DPC’s activities in relation to children’s data protection rights.

Following publication, we have developed our “Spotlight on the Irish DPC Annual Report” series, a number of articles examining the key themes, developments and case studies from the Report.