Mr. Denis Kelleher:

That is the idea behind the general data protection regulations, namely, that they update European rights. The Senator is correct. The legislation before the computer age did not anticipate the Internet. It does now, and that is the idea behind the GDPR.

The legislation can be criticised in various ways. It is a very clever piece of legislation and does a very good job of addressing many of the issues raised in the modern digital world. How it applies in practice will be known from May of next year. It will be very interesting over the coming years to see how all of this will actually work in practice. A very clever model for regulating the Internet, modern social media, profiling and so forth has been developed. It addresses a lot of issues and it will be very interesting to see how it works.