Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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What I am getting at is that you feel there are certain principles that ought to be embedded in a job interview. Maybe this has to go into employment law or insurance law and is not Coimisiún na Meán's baby. However, it does seem to me that machine learning will challenge existing laws and it will not be good enough for Coimisiún na Meán to say there is a data law and there are other laws that must be complied with. Maybe we have to rewrite some of the laws. Will Dr. Evans come back to me on that?

As for the accept and consent stuff. I never read terms and conditions and I accept them ten times per day. Will they all have to come back to me again and say, "Are you sure?", and here is some very simple explanation of what I am consenting to?