Spotlight On The Irish Data Protection Commission’s Annual Report: Practical Takeaways For Employers In Ireland

What You Need to Know

On 30 June 2026, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) published its annual case studies booklet (“Booklet”) alongside its 2025 annual report (“Report”).¹

The Booklet contains 39 case studies illustrating how the DPC approaches common data protection issues in practice. A significant number of these case studies arise in an employment context and offer important practical guidance for employers on their data protection obligations.
This article is the second in our Spotlight on the Irish DPC Annual Report series, in which we examine key themes, developments and case studies from the Report. In our first article, we examined the main Report highlights while in this article, we summarise the key employment-related case studies and key takeaways for employers.