Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion

2:00 pm

Ms Niamh Sweeney:

Let me add that bviously we are regulated by the Data Protection Commission here in Ireland. Cambridge Analytica is subject to the jurisdiction of the information commissioner in the United Kingdom, given that is where the company is established for data protection purposes.

We are engaging with both and available to both and have been in close contact with them as they investigate from the perspective of both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.

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