When his current term comes to an end next year, Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Billy Hawkes will not be seeking reappointment. That’s according to a Bloomberg BusinessWeek story on Hawkes’ work in the nine years since he was appointed DPC—back when “Gmail was still in beta; Facebook was only open to a handful of colleges, and Steve Jobs was secretly designing a mobile phone.” Mark Milian writes that although “Hawkes says he won’t seek reappointment in 2015 when his current term as commissioner ends … he should have plenty to do before then” with Twitter and Dropbox operations in Ireland, the current examination of LinkedIn’s policies and the DPC’s placement “in the middle of a tech tug of war.”
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