Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Caoimhghín Ó CaoláinCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In all of the cases of which I have been reminded, people were unaware. People take out these arrangements without going into the fine detail of the small print. It is not in small print for any other reason than to dissuade people from studying it in any great depth and they do not do so. Should there not be an obligation on financial institutions and others to state more prominently the detail relating to data protection in any contract signed whatever the case might be? This needs to be heralded from the outset, not just with taking out a loan with a banking institution but in a much broader sense.

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