Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
That is a concern I noted from the discussion this morning. This is an organisation run on a contract basis by the public service. The minute a call is received the service can identify the physical location of the person by way of the mobile phone and in that way it would be possible to identify the location of the entire population. Mr. Browne is advising that this service does not come under the directive. I would consider it to be a breach of cyber security if that information were to fall into the wrong hands in that it would be possible to identify the physical location of everybody in the country just like that.
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