Now that 2021 has come to a close, what data protection developments and compliance challenges lie ahead in 2022, and what are the Irish Data Protection Commission’s key enforcement and regulatory priorities? In 2022, organizations will undoubtedly continue to wrestle with several key data protection issues including legitimizing data transfers; processing Covid-19 vaccination data in the workplace; drafting data privacy notices; verifying the identity of data subjects when exercising their GDPR rights; and legitimizing data sharing between public bodies. New EU and national regulatory developments, enforcement actions, and litigation will undoubtedly keep companies and legal practitioners busy until the end of 2022 and beyond.
