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:
If I can steal one of Dr. Aiken's great lines, there is no shallow end in the swimming pool. It is all very fine to block certain things and have Internet protocol, IP, filtering but once somebody is given access to an application, such as Snapchat, that person has it. There is no sort of Snapchat light. There are fundamental principles that we must get right.