American power giant Eaton had asked court to reconsider order to surrender performance data to US taxman, citing data privacy fears
The case stems from an IRS audit of Eaton’s 2017-2019 tax returns, focused on whether the company improperly shifted intellectual property (IP) to Ireland. Photo: Getty
A Dublin-headquartered multinational has been told to ignore GDPR rules in a long-running US legal case over access to Irish employee related data.
The American judge argued any resulting fine from the Irish Data Protection Commissioners here would likely only be ‘marginal’, a view that is likely to be highly controversial with European regulators and privacy campaigners.
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