Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion

Mr. Dale Sunderland:

Yes, we have 21 open inquiries into the large tech companies at the moment. A number of those investigations cover the principles of data protection, issues around the standard of consent and what transparency means. As the commissioner mentioned at the hearing to which the Deputy referred, we have significant investigations into Adtech. Through those investigations, we will look in detail at how companies say they are complying with the law and aligning what they identify as their compliance features with what we say is the correct interpretation of the GDPR. They will culminate in formal decisions of the DPC having gone through the measures of co-operation with all the other data protection authorities.

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