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Irish Data Protection Commission beefs up technical investigation capacities with help from private sector

Published on 20.01.2022 at 07:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

The regulator, which has come under attack for not being tougher with the US tech giants, has teamed with a British forensics expert and four international accounting firms to bolster its investigations.

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