Germany’s federal data commissioner has suggested that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) should accept outside help to succeed with the task of regulating big techs.
The new data protection regulation, known as GDPR, gives Ireland’s regulator frontline responsibility for overseeing Dublin-based tech companies. However, according to the German regulator, what was devised as a ‘one-stop shop’ to simplify regulatory oversight, had led to regulatory standstill. Thus, the German regulator criticised the professional performance of a body ‘insufficiently equipped for its task’.
The German federal regulator has suggested a streamlined system allowing the transfer of cross-border cases to a European data protection agency if a three-quarters majority of EU member states’ regulators were in favour. Furthermore, the regulator in Hamburg has suggested imposing a time limit for national authorities to reach a finding – or have the case revoked by European authorities.
Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.
Subscribe now