Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

State Response to Online Disinformation and Media and Digital Literacy: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Barry Walsh:

There are well-established protocols for dealing with service providers that are based in the State but that are hosted outside of the State. That is generally what we encounter. We can generally get subscriber information and other types of information. That is readily available to us. However, when we go to get content, we tend to use the mutual legal assistance process. That can be time consuming. There is no way around it. It is just the process we deal with. Overall, as has been pointed out, the service providers have been very proactive on intimate image abuse. That is my experience as well. As I have said, legislation has been introduced in the intervening years between what was pointed out earlier and now. That legislation has been very beneficial.

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