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 Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Many people have a real concern here, that the business model is driving this not just for use of that in my search history but in my advertising and it is that volume of data these companies have. They now know more about me than I know about myself. What the Data Protection Commissioner's office and the UCD academics said last week raised concerns rather than undermined this. There needs to be a fundamental review of what consent is because it seems we are implying consent when there is not real consent in many of the ways in which these companies manage and use information.

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