The DPC said that of all fines issued between 2020 and the end of October this year, only €19.9 million of the total has been paid so far.

The inquiry examined LinkedIn’s processing of personal data for the purposes of behavioural analysis and targeted advertising of users.

The DPC said it hoped to bring staff members up to 260 by the end of this year and to 320 by the end of 2025.

The issue applied to millions of Facebook and Instagram users.

Taoiseach Simon Harris is to chair a summit at Government Buildings.

The Data Protection Commission is to examine whether an assessment needed to be carried out before people’s data was processed.

The Data Protection Commission has welcomed the outcome of prosecution proceedings that were taken in Galway District Court this week.

The DPC is the lead EU regulator for a number of major international tech firms, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and OpenAI

Meta has brought a statutory appeal the fines imposed by the Data Protection Commission for breach of EU privacy rules

Google Ireland says it wrote to the DPC outlining its concerns regarding the validity and admissibility of the DPC's complaints

In internal submissions, officials said the Department of Health could have been hit with a fine of up to €1 million

Any failure to comply with the enforcement notice is a criminal offence, and could also see the company being fined

Max Schrems is an Austrian lawyer and activist with the privacy rights organisation NOYB

TikTok's action is against the decision to impose the fine over how some of its privacy settings and features complied with obligations under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The fine was in respect of TikTok's privacy settings in relation to GDPR