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:

That is right. The Deputy asked whether it is routine to outline findings without having an enforcement notice ready, to which the answer is that it absolutely is routine. We do not anticipate litigation in respect of every decision we make. The Deputy asked for previous examples of the same thing happening. I referred earlier to the case of Yahoo! EMEA Limited in June 2018, where we issued details of our findings in respect of a detailed investigation similar to the one we undertook in the case we are discussing today. In the Yahoo! EMEA Limited case, we invited and received the company's voluntary compliance, thereby negating the need to move to an enforcement action. There is nothing unusual in terms of the process we followed in the case we are discussing.

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