Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Influence of Social Media on Elections and Referenda: Discussion

2:00 pm

Photo of Timmy DooleyTimmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Dixon and Ms Neary and thank them for their presentations. They talked about Internet segments. Are those Internet segments published? Do we have some understanding of what they are or what kind of silos are created? Ms Neary talked about purchasing books. That seems a rather benign example. There may be others that would be helpful.

Is it the case that some social media platforms - I mention Facebook because its representatives are here - track users when the user has left the Facebook environment? Do these platforms have the capacity to travel with the user when they migrate from one stage to another? If so, why? It may not be the case that they do but I am just posing the question.

May I ask another question that is related to the Data Protection Commissioner's work?

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