Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Paragraph 7 of the opening statement referred to changes to the data protection legal framework and pointed out that the DPC has no regulatory competence in law for many contemporary issues, including fake news, online context moderation and Internet safety. Has the commission a view on a digital safety commissioner and on the debate on fake news? Has it examined what has happened elsewhere?

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