Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Data Protection Package: Discussion with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
10:05 am
Mr. Billy Hawkes:
As I understand it, in principle one can be tracked. A person cannot really operate anonymously in the sense that if a court order is directed to a social network to identify an anonymous person, it can be done. There have been many cases where this has happened. People who thought they were anonymous ceased to be anonymous and legal action was taken against them.