Johnny Ryan loses High Court case over Google data complaint

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Dr Johnny Ryan’s High Court claim that the Data Protection Commission failed to investigate his complaint about Google’s processing of personal data was dismissed in a written judgment delivered on 28 August 2023.

Mr Justice Garrett Simons ruled that the Commission could complete its own inquiry into the alleged data breach before resuming its investigation of Ryan’s complaint about Real Time Bidding.

The Commission said its own-initiative inquiry, opened in 2019 and still ongoing, would be completed before Ryan’s complaint was resumed. The judgment described the inquiry as complex and time-consuming.