
ALT Dear Minister European Digital Rights, the network of 47 organisations who defend human rights in the digital age in Europe, writes to condemn the action of the Irish Government, which has surreptitiously introduced an amendment to Irish law to gag critics of the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), and has done so in manner that is an affront to Ireland’s normal process of legislative scrutiny. On Wednesday 21 June, the Irish Government introduced a “ministerial amendment” in the final stages of the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022. Such a bill would normally contain minor amendments in various laws. However, the ministerial amendment grants to the Irish Data Protection Commission the power to gag complainants and parties to procedures. Our members across the European Union have many times expressed grave doubts about the functioning of the DPC. This puts at risk the rights of all Europeans, because the DPC is the lead supervisory authority for so many larg




















