Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Joel Kaplan:

How many categories of data does one keep? Deputy Lawless raised I believe the 96 or 98 categories. That came up in the congressional testimony last week and the short answer is that I am not sure where that number came from. We will provide an answer. Once our personnel can figure out exactly where that information came from, we will try to capture and characterise the types of data that we collect. I am not exactly sure where that number originated.