In response to a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500 million Facebook users, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta $275 million on Monday. The Irish authority, tasked with upholding EU privacy legislation, has fined Meta more than $945 million since last October. The DPC announced the fine in a statement, noting that between May 2018 and September... 

Almost 1.4 million Irish residents, or 30 percent of Ireland’s population, were forced to endure “enforced deprivation” throughout 2013, the state’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) says. New figures, published on Wednesday, offer a sobering insight into the socioeconomic impacts of Austerity Ireland. The CSO’s research analyzed Irish citizens’ income and living conditions throughout...