The Irish Data Protection Commission—the European “go to” privacy regulator for the world’s tech giants—has revealed it received 7,215 complaints during the first full year the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was in force, representing a 75 percent increase on 2018’s figures of just over 4,000.

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