Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. He said there is not much vetting of who works there - that is, the company that would be contracted to do it - and he said the amount of data that they are free to look through seems quite broad. He said also that it would not be difficult to identify the person that they are listening to, especially with accidental triggers, because it could include addresses and names. That is quite a stark thing for a person who works in that company to say - this whistleblower - and that would concern people.

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