Ireland's Data Protection Commission released its 2022 annual report. The DPC highlighted its workload and regulatory accomplishments over the last year, including the finalization of 17 large-scale investigations that yielded fines totaling more than 1 billion euros. Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon said her office's enforcement activity "underlines both the outsized role, and exceptional performance, of the (regulator) in effectively holding those guilty of non-compliance to account." According to Dixon, the DPC's fines accounted for two-thirds of the 2022 sanctions issued by EU data protection authorities.
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