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The Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) recently published its Annual Report for 2025, describing the year as its most active to date. The Report provides a comprehensive account of the DPC’s activities during 2025, a year marked by a record 45% surge in complaints. A key trend with many of these complaints was the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools in data subject complaint correspondence. The Report showcases the DPC’s activity on multiple fronts, including its continued focus on regulating emerging technologies (including generative AI model training), advancing cross-border enforcement through the one-stop-shop (“OSS”) mechanism, strengthening the protection of children’s personal data, and regulating international data transfers.
The DPC also separately published a Booklet of Case-Studies from 2025, and released its first Sharenting Survey which independently surveyed parents to gain insights into their social media use and information-sharing practices in relation to their children.
In this latest insight, Technology and Innovation partners Marie McGinley, Davinia Brennan, and Sarah Jayne Hanna, alongside solicitor Stephanie Ryan, discuss the key highlights of the Report and some interesting takeaways from the published case-studies.
Read the full article here.
