Ms Niamh Sweeney:

I think it is important to flag that it could not happen today. If one is an app developer, one gets very limited information now. We made a big change in 2014 to totally cut out friends data but now if one is someone who downloads the app via a Facebook interface, one gets very limited data. If a developer wants to request further data from a person, the developer has to make a business case to us for it first, and then, again, request that permission from the users.

What happened with Kogan cannot happen again but that is of little comfort to anyone is affected or whose data was used by it unbeknownst to them. At least going forward, we know that is a known known.