Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Claire Dil?:

I can start with this and then give the floor to Ms McDade to speak about the recommender system. There are two situations with our co-operation with law enforcement. The first one is proactive referrals. Under the DSA, when there is risk of harm to the life of a person or bodily harm and we become aware of this situation on our platform, we have to disclose the information to law enforcement. In that case, we give it what we have, which is IP logs. If there is an email address and the phone number of the person, we also provide them. Then law enforcement will, for instance, work with phone operators or other services to find out who this person is, but we have the obligation to disclose the information we have. We are also co-operating with law enforcement voluntarily and we have an online portal available to it where it can make removal requests to ask us to remove content. It can make information requests about that user and can also ask us for preservation request, so in a case where a user would suppress their account we have an obligation under the GDPR to keep them for a certain number of days, but not more than that, because then we would be in breach of the GDPR. We keep them for this number of days, but if we receive a preservation request from law enforcement we keep material for twice the time. We need to do it for 90 days in order that law enforcement can carry out its investigation and when it has enough information about the person it can make a request for information on our platform.