The Irish Data Protection Commission has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award by privacy activists for harming data protection rights in Germany's Big Brother Awards. During the ceremony, the DPC came under heavy criticism for what the German privacy campaigners that organised the event claim are the "continued sabotage of efforts to enforce European data protection law". The citation says the DPC "blocks the enforcement of established law – through years of delay, de-facto refusal to process complaints, bureaucratic tricks, deterrent costs for complainants and lack of cooperation with European colleagues.”
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