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Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Alan Dillon: ...of the general scheme of the online safety and media regulation Bill 2020. This meeting has been convened to hear from representatives from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI, and the Data Protection Commission, DPC. This is the second of our public hearings to discuss the general scheme of the Bill. I welcome the witnesses. They will all be joining the meeting remotely via...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Alan Dillon: I thank Mr. O'Keeffe. I call Ms Morgan to address the committee on behalf of the Data Protection Commission, DPC.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...on Part 4, online safety, and the specific areas in which there may be potential synergies with the work of the DPC. While the DPC is primarily concerned with its own area of regulation, namely, data protection, it recognises that the regulation of online safety issues, including harmful content, and data protection will naturally complement and be mutually supportive of each other....

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: ...and online media services? At what percentage should the levy be set? I thank Ms Morgan for her presentation. She spoke extensively of the work that may not fall within the remit of the Data Protection Commission but is landing on her desk because it has nowhere else to go. Of these complaints, what is the age profile of complainants? Are they under 18 years? How difficult is this?...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...for complainants is that because they are objecting to the nature of the content in question rather than asserting that there has been some sort of infringement insofar as the rules around data protection are concerned, when we go about evaluating that complaint, we must do so within the framework of the data protection regime. That means, first, trying to establish whether there is a...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Brendan Griffin: Further to the point regarding the power the Data Protection Commissioner does or does not have, is Ms Morgan saying the provisions in the Bill should be stronger in that regard?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...regulatory lacuna will arise in circumstances where the current definition of harmful online content set out in head 49A specifically excludes material which is said to violate, among other things, data protection law. The concern that arises for us on that front is that there may be a dilution of the effectiveness of the online safety commissioner and the media commission in tackling...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the representatives of the BAI and the Data Protection Commission, DPC, for their presentations. I will begin with questions to the DPC. I welcome the fact that, in its recommendations, it mentions the new media commission dealing with all forms of online harm and states that these need to be covered. This has the potential to be one of the most powerful regulators in the State. I...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...roll-out of artificial intelligence by tech companies and tech platforms. Separately, he referred to algorithmic-based decision-making. Both are matters which, insofar as they concern general data, would fall within the scope of the GDPR and the general data protection regime. On biometric authentication, the use of any biometric personal data would be captured by the rules around...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...commission in that start-up situation. In terms of the efforts of the Department in securing the right numbers, our departmental colleagues have said that a staff of, at least, the size of the Data Protection Commission would be envisaged. Given the scale of the tasks before the new media commission, we would not disagree with that. We believe that a staff of, at least, a similar scale...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Micheál Carrigy: ...it should be applicable not only to the broadcasting sector, but the print media as well, particularly news and current affairs. It is important that sector would be able to benefit too. On data protection, I sometimes find it hard to get my head around this area. What stands out to me are two particular comments from the DPC opening statement, in particular that the Bill expressly...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...with the departmental officials. Our reading of the general scheme was not that categories of online harm would be excluded by virtue of the fact that they might contain some personal data, but rather that it was more to protect the functions of the Data Protection Commissioner and make those clear and distinct from the functions of the media commission. Therefore, determinations in...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...and I also thank Ms Craig for her comments on these issues. If someone has posted content online about another individual, issues may arise concerning both harmful online content concerns and data protection concerns. It can be hard for individuals to differentiate between the two different areas of regulation. While we appreciate that it may not have been the intention to have an...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Imelda Munster: ...general scheme provides adequate freedom for the press? Is the BAI happy with the new levy, proposed under head 40 of the Bill, that would fund the media commission? My next questions are for the Data Protection Commission. Will the representatives expand on the potential issues that could arise if the Bill to emerge from this general scheme persists in excluding, from the scope of...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...for an adequate regulatory regime, which is missing currently, to tackle these types of situation where what is essentially user-generated content is at issue. As we noted in our submissions, the data protection regime has not been set up with the policy objective of dealing with such content moderation issues. Consequently, there is a gap in the law. The lady's experience also...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Malcolm Byrne: ...of what the witnesses said earlier about this. I think a flood of queries will arrive in to the new online safety commissioner. Ms Morgan might be able to comment on this. Every year the Data Protection Commission gets something like 6,000 individual queries around data protection breaches. If we look at the scale and level of online abuse that is out there, I have no doubt that if we...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Micheál Carrigy: ...depends on what one puts up on social media. A concern in recent times has been the targeting of journalists for abuse. Recently, one national journalist has been writing stories that involve the Data Protection Commissioner and a political party. The amount of threats and abuse that journalist has received on social media is quite noticeable. We pride ourselves in this country on the...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Alan Dillon: ...? How can we implement deterrents or penalties? Ms Morgan referred to 4,000 complaints being made in 2020. How many of those complaints involved apparent enforcement breaches of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act? How many of those could be issues for the online regulator? On the BAI being subsumed within the media commission, what challenges do the witnesses see coming down the...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

...a strong expectation that not only will those powers be available to the commission, but they will actually be utilised and enforced where necessary. That may have been the experience also of the Data Protection Commissioner.