Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland
11:10 am
Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Overseas intelligence networks identified particular words. Does the delegation believe this is acceptable? Does it think people should be able to monitor phone calls in a similar way? I was going to talk about Twitter because some stations have a slight delay so they can monitor messages before they broadcast them. Is that the normal process? Does the delegation have an opinion as to whether they should appear straightaway without being interfered with? The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner seems to be underfunded. We need more monitoring.
If our guests could tell us what should be done in terms of funding for the Data Protection Commissioner, I would appreciate it. I refer to additional funding and how it would be spent, etc.
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