😵 🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta. This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems Alt text: social media post: Helen Dixon
Global Digital Regulatory Consultant; Independent Non-Exec...
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I am delighted to join the team at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP at a time when data and technology regulation along with digital platform governance are rapidly evolving.
Regulators are placing greater emphasis on accountability, transparency, and risk mitigation in online environments.
As the firm's Global Digital Regulatory Consultant, I look forward to helping clients develop practical strategies that enable them to operate confidently while meeting regulatory and societal expectations.
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems You are confusing cause and effect. The DPC is not maliciously sabotaging GDPR because it made a bad hire. It made that hire because the Irish government's economic policy is to appeal to multinationals so they headquarter there, and sabotaging GDPR is a means to that end.
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
It's amazing how oodles of cash can assuage a guilty conscience.
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@maxschrems 360° mean she didn't change her direction ...
half turn = 180°
@lexinova @maxschrems I think it's 2 x 180, which would add up
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@maxschrems initially I was like, you mean a 180° seat swap, not 360°, right? But then read it again, it really does sound like 360°.
@T_X @maxschrems not really since she never changed course, only lied like if she had.
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems she did a couple of years in comreg too. Where there, even by the standards of comreg commissioners she was clumsy & ineffective.
Comreg is another of Ireland's truly useless regulators.
Regulatory capture was baked in from it's very first days as ODTR.Her predecessor in comreg is now chair of
Coimisiún na Meán | Ireland's media regulator
Coimisiún na Meán is Ireland’s agency for developing and regulating a thriving, diverse, creative, safe and trusted media landscape.
Coimisiún na Meán (www.cnam.ie)
Ireland's new media regulator.
The Gist: Coimisiún na Meán is Big Mad
Oh boy, Ireland's new Internet Regulator is super mad that their idea to get people to upload their passports and live selfies to porn sites is being criticised. This is the Gist.
The Gist (www.thegist.ie)
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems I read the picture first and thought it was satire post over extreme corporate blandness, using comletely generic campany names. Apparently it wasn't.
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems why do you think this will make ireland the laughing stock of the EU? The EU does very well by itself thank you very much:
https://euobserver.com/204496/ngos-want-ex-meta-mep-removed-from-eu-digital-rules-relaxation/ -
🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
Least surprising news, sadly.
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems She fell for 'double'.
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@maxschrems why do you think this will make ireland the laughing stock of the EU? The EU does very well by itself thank you very much:
https://euobserver.com/204496/ngos-want-ex-meta-mep-removed-from-eu-digital-rules-relaxation/@dejaeghere @maxschrems She was elected by the citizens of Finland. Anybody voting for an EPP party is a laughing stock to me personally, but there's only one country in the EU which renders all economic stats in the EU useless to the point that we have to exclude it from calculations. It does so because it serves its American corporate masters, so yeah, we point and laugh at it.
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems
I remain convinced that with political will there are imaginative and effective ways to clamp down on this revolving door regulatory capture.
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@maxschrems I read the picture first and thought it was satire post over extreme corporate blandness, using comletely generic campany names. Apparently it wasn't.
Looking up from the pub filled streets of Irish Disneyland, Dublin we can see the towers where plenty of this cringeworthy neoliberal culture exists.
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...trust in the #RuleOfLaw and #Democratic institutions. I cannot believe that they and their families are not ashamed of themselves down to their bones...
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437525315645640707/
@maxschrems
EU citizens: the USA is your cautionary tale!Don't let this sort of revolving door between regulators and lobbyists continue to be legal!
Don't let the military/industrial complex eat your governments!
Act now to save your democratic institutions!
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@Max Schrems Ireland is poor, their economy isn't well since many years - they need the money from Big Tech. For that reason they've been extremely unresponsive to data privacy issues from the beginning on. I don't see any way to change that, the EU itself gets weaker and weaker regarding enforcing these issues. Most existing lies with some activists and as many as possible private parties writing eregular emails to EU commisions about this, emphasizing the need for privacy. On a political level there seems only apathy now. -
🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems Why should such people feel ashamed? Did you ever watch the comedy TV series Parlement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series)
I often found myself unable to laugh because these unscrupulous lobbyists were so authentic.
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems I find it shocking
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems so now this woman is employed in the "we shit in everyone's head company" ?
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🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
@maxschrems It’s close to being the same situation in England. I wonder how many more places it might be. EU is not immune to corporate capture and people need to start waking up realising that our protections and rights are being chipped away at.
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