This morning we sent a complaint v Ireland to the European Commission
Ireland has appointed an ex-Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner.
The process lacked safeguards against conflicts of interest and political interference. This will be interpreted by the tech industry as a signal of impunity.
The European Commission must intervene.
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/complaint-v-ireland-to-european-commission-re-process-appointing-ex-meta-lobbyist-as-data-protection-commissioner/

Big tech firms would not be the problem that they now are if we had actually enforced the GDPR in 2018.
But we - Ireland and the European Commission - allowed them to trample EU law. Now they are a major geostrategic problem, and the EU has a massive case of “vendor lock in”, too.
Time for change.

The EU must use the anti coercion instrument now, or be humiliated. Europe must be free to enforce its own law on its own soil.