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)

Mr. Gary Davis:

Of course, and I gave that example as a way of demonstrating how we try to be thoughtful about how we collect data in different circumstances. Even if I want to find the nearest supermarket, restaurant or whatever else, and at that point we collect a more precise location, it is still only associated with the random identifier, the long string of numbers and letters, and it is not in any way associated with my identity, or in any way that we can work back to that. Even though we have put those privacy protections in place for Siri, we still challenge ourselves to not collect data if we do not need it.

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