Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Gary Davis:

Absolutely, but a person should be able to understand it even before then. When a user launches any Apple service, we have a screen that appears with a data and privacy icon that explains to the user in what we believe are simple terms why his or her data is being collected in those instances where it is collected, and then we have some further support information behind that. A person gets great transparency at privacyapple.com, but he or she gets it as the service launches as well.