Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Employee Experiences of Technological Surveillance in the Financial Services Sector: Discussion

Mr. John O'Connell:

I honestly think it would be of benefit to have an open debate to first establish what the floor is and what is the current level of surveillance taking place. Employers could come forward to openly and transparently share with us information on that. Equally, we must recognise that the pathway out of that is to determine where we go then and how quickly we can respond. We would be afraid that this will end up like social media, in that it will go so far and so fast that by the time we legislate for it and regulate it, it will have moved away from us and the future entities, whichever they may be, will be all-powerful, similar to social media companies are today.