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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Mr. Dale Sunderland: I doubt whether any commercial entity or private, public or voluntary sector company is always in full compliance with data protection law. I know there is context, risk and large-scale data processing. We are looking through all these issues and are achieving change as we engage with the companies. If based on everything we have gathered, we make an assessment that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Mr. Dale Sunderland: I thank the committee for its invitation to attend to discuss the processing of personal data in the context of digital assistants. I am one of the deputy commissioners at the Data Protection Commission, with responsibility for the consultation, supervision and guidance on policy functions of the office. Also in attendance are Cathal Ryan, assistant commissioner, who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

...entire process is compliant. At this stage, we are more concerned about the systemic issue and nature of the processing from the start of the installation of the product through to the use of the data at the other end. There may be multiple uses for that data. We do not receive, nor do we ask for logs. We are trying to stand back and look. In the case of misactivations, we want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Mr. Dale Sunderland: Mr. O'Carroll referred to the GDPR codes of conduct and certification. The GDPR says that they are mainly industry-led but data protection authorities have a role to encourage the development of codes and certification. A code of conduct is not what we might traditionally know as a code in the sense that everyone signs up to behave themselves, but in a GDPR context, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Mr. Dale Sunderland: The DPC and data protection authorities in all other member states are entirely independent from their national governments and the European Commission. It is our job to take the legal framework we have been given and dispassionately regulate against that framework without fear or favour and this is what we are doing. We are coming to the conclusion of our major...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: At the international grand committee, the Data Protection Commissioner, Ms Helen Dixon, said that this process of starting the GDPR has been in existence for 18 months. Has the European regulator seen cases coming through using Article 25 and asking questions about that consent process and what consent is? Will that legal process drive this as well or is it just coming from the data...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

...to the greatest extent it can be so that it is not just a case of continuing where there is a significant risk of misactiviations and it is a case of users beware. This is so that users are protected from misactivations in the first place and that the data reviewed by humans are properly anonymised or pseudonymised and that they would take away personal identifiers so that when a human...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Mr. Dale Sunderland: Yes, we have 21 open inquiries into the large tech companies at the moment. A number of those investigations cover the principles of data protection, issues around the standard of consent and what transparency means. As the commissioner mentioned at the hearing to which the Deputy referred, we have significant investigations into Adtech. Through those investigations,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Hildegarde Naughton: I will start with a question for the Data Protection Commission and perhaps Dr. Cowan. This issue of people's data came up when we held the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and 'Fake News' here in the Houses of the Oireachtas. As Dr. Cowan said, children and visitors in a home could be profiled - are being profiled - and tracked and those data shared. What are the witnesses'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

...will take that. It is a very pertinent point. In our view, the GDPR provides the tools and levers, and will increasingly do so, to enable us to ensure there is proper, safe and trustworthy use of data. That is taking place now at a time when there is significant debate across not just industry but broader society, and among people who use these data and examine how they are used, about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Mr. Ultan O'Carroll: Part of what we were doing in Europe was an opinion on data protection by design. The key takeaway from that is that Article 25 of the GDPR imposes a legal obligation on data controllers, the organisations that create these devices and do the processing, to account for data protection by design in everything they do. It is not just about things like data minimisation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

...complaints must be addressed as well. It is not solely about the big tech companies. I think it is likely that our funding will continue to be provided from the central Exchequer. That is quite normal for data protection authorities across the European Union. We will continue to make the case as to why we need that funding. On staffing, compared to some of our peer data protection...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Hildegarde Naughton: Just to clarify what Dr. Cowan is saying, do we need to legislate for data protection by design? He hopes the companies are making ethical design decisions but how do we make them do that? Is legislation required? Who would like to respond to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Jack Chambers: I thank the witnesses for appearing. I dealt with representatives of the DPC at the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality when we were processing the Data Protection Act 2018. I am alarmed by the soft wording in the statement provided by the DPC. There is reference to ongoing engagement with the companies. That is too soft and weak. The DPC has strong legislative back-up under GDPR and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

...that we did not get everything we asked for, but we will make do but what we have. The story of resourcing the DPC must continue in the future. We are in the upper tier of best resourced data protection authorities but we are not at the very top, yet we carry the disproportionate burden of being the first line of defence for regulating the technology companies in Europe. That story has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

...will realise their responsibilities, drive to higher standards and realise and really acknowledge and accept, which I think many are increasingly doing, that they have an obligation to the users to protect their data and use them in safe ways. The commission will fulfil its role through our regulatory work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Hildegarde Naughton: From the Data Protection Commission, DPC, I welcome Mr. Dale Sunderland, deputy commissioner; Mr. Cathal Ryan, assistant commissioner; and Mr. Ultan O’Carroll, assistant commissioner. From University College Dublin, I welcome Dr. Benjamin R. Cowan, assistant professor at the school of information and communication studies. I draw the attention of witnesses to the fact that by virtue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Tim Lombard: The other issue is the size of the operation. We are in an usual space in Ireland. We have a major conglomeration of tech companies that are a major force. The Data Protection Commission is going up to 170 staff this year alone. We are talking about multinationals that have very deep pockets. Is it big industry against small government? The commission has an independent remit but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Timmy Dooley: .... People do not know about it. I know many people who would not be anxious to have it on all the time if they knew the potential for other conversations to be recorded. There is an issue around protecting citizens from the perspective of civil liberties, which perhaps falls to the regulator. It needs greater support from the State through laws that would require a much greater volume...