Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
9:00 am
Ms Helen Dixon:
The issue of transparency was flagged. In our view there was a lack of coherence in what was being described. There are transparency requirements in data protection legislation, whereby individuals should understand why their data are being collected, processed and retained, but these were not being fulfilled. The Deputy says we did not rush into it and she is correct but we finally launched an investigation in 2017 when we could not make progress in terms of engaging.
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