, have their EU headquarters in Ireland. That means Ireland's Data Protection Commission is tasked with overseeing their compliance with GDPR's rules, such as notifying authorities of data breaches within 72 hours or making sure companies get proper consent from users on their platforms.CNBC's Beyond the Valley
, Dixon said her office has had to "significantly expand" its resources due to an influx of privacy breach notifications and complaints from individuals since GDPR went into effect. Ireland's Data Protection Commission is currently conducting 20 investigations into multinational companies over possible breaches of GDPR. Eleven of those inquiries involve Facebook or its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram. Dixon said she expects the first conclusions will be reached "She added GDPR has "a big stick that's waving at companies" in the form of sanctions and fines.
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Ireland will do whatever highest bidder wants - they drop tax rates to bribe big tech companies to dodge tax there & they've accepted massive EU handouts over the years. EU is currently onto them over enforcing privacy laws so they'll bow & do what they want.