Data Processing at Work: The Right to Rectification and Erasure
Published on: 11/01/2018
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Deirdre Crowley Partner in Employment & Technology Groups, Mathesons
Deirdre Crowley Partner in Employment & Technology Groups, Mathesons
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In her day to day practice, Deirdre advises on all aspects of employment, equality and industrial relations law. Appearing regularly before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Courts and the Data Protection Commission on behalf of clients, Deirdre is an experienced, robust and practical advocate. In recent years, Deirdre developed a niche practice in the areas of employment and data protection with particular experience in dealing with contentious data subject access requests, employment related privacy data breaches, regulatory investigations by the Data Protection Commission and enforcement actions involving criminal sanctions in the data protection space.

We are very excited to confirm that the team at Crowley Solicitors led by Deirdre Crowley have agreed to write a series of articles dealing with the many different issues that arise when handling data at work.  The first in the series published today, deals with the right of an employee to request that any personal data held by their employer is rectified or erased.

An employee’s right to rectification and erasure ⚓︎

On Tuesday 9 January 2018, a landmark legal action relating to the publication of an inappropriate photograph of a Northern Irish 14 year old girl, posted on a Facebook shame page, was settled.   The case is believed to be the first in the world of its

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