Ireland’s ability to regulate Internet companies “is something that causes a lot of worry to data protection authorities” elsewhere in Europe, says TJ McIntyre, a law lecturer at University College Dublin who calls the data protection office “massively under-resourced.” Regulators in Germany, in particular, have been critical of how the Irish agency handled the Schrems complaints. The data protection commissioner for the state of Schleswig-Holstein said in December that he “can’t understand” why the Irish agency’s report listed privacy problems but did not declare them illegal. Hamburg’s data protection authority has said some of the Irish agency’s recommendations were “unclear.” Davis says his office’s main obligation was to resolve the Schrems complaints, which it is doing.