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
Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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We are talking about data in regard to a Facebook member rather than anyone else who might access a site. When a Facebook member accesses a site other than one within the Facebook platform at a particular time, some data is created which is connected to them through their Facebook connection. Is that data stored, with the profile of that individual, in perpetuity?