Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Professor Barry O'Sullivan:

In fact, in Ireland someone cannot buy a dog licence at 13 years of age. Next May children could be in a situation where they will be able to sign up to a system that will gather almost everything about them on their device and use it for commercial purposes, which will be highly problematic.