Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We all get that online and phone fraud and scams are activities that are everywhere and unavoidable. Cybercrime, as we have seen, is at its height. I was aware at one stage that ComReg was involved in a working group concerning phone scams and this type of field. How stands this initiative? I also remember Dr. Richard Browne of the NCSC dealt with the issue of directed spyware. We are talking about the likes of Pegasus and Predator. A company operating out of Ireland has ownership of one of these products. They are used by many nefarious regimes around the world. I think Dr. Browne said we needed some sort of legislative tools to be able to deal with this type of activity. There were issues concerning GDPR, etc. Will the Minister update us on where we are with this work?

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