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
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
How is the digital age of consent being implemented? Have many complaints been made about breaches of the legislation? Has there been any investigation into breaches of the legislation?
Are the resources allocated to the Data Protection Commission commensurate with the commission's role in the context of multinational companies? The Data Protection Commissioner, Ms Dixon, has outlined publicly her concerns about the general allocation, staff space and other matters. Will Ms Morgan update the committee on those issues?
The Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy Stanton, will be before the committee to discuss gambling companies next week. There are a great many concerns about gambling addicts, one of the most vulnerable groups cohorts in society, being targeted on the basis of their previous activity. The gambling companies use very complex technical tools to target people and there may have been data breaches. Concerns about this have been submitted to the Data Protection Commission. Are there active investigations under way against gambling companies?
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