Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion

10:55 am

Photo of Ciarán LynchCiarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

To take that issue further, applications that one downloads onto one's mobile phone can give the owners of those applications incredibly detailed information about one as a user. They can identify one's location, access one's e-mails, get into one's contact list and so forth. While that is a separate issue from the freedom of information debate, it is a matter of concern in terms of data protection.

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