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

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Vice Chairman, several questions were not answered but I have one question in particular about the Data Protection Commissioner. Why did the witnesses not contact the Data Protection Commission when they found out about the use of third party Kogan App, scraping friends data? Given that this had been a contentious issue between Facebook and the Data Protection Commissioner, given that the witnesses had been given direction in the years 2011 and 2012 to shut it down and had a fight for two years over not doing that, how come they did not tell the Data Protection Commission that it happened?