Seanad debates
Thursday, 3 April 2003
Data Protection (Amendment) Bill 2002 [ Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil ] : Report and Final Stages.
The Senator also raised the question of amendment No. 21 and the substitution of the word "processing" for that of "disclosure". Processing includes disclosure, but processing is a wider concept than disclosure. The EU directive deals with processing and, therefore, the various safeguards and qualifications in the Bill relate to processing. There was no legitimate reason to apply some of them only to disclosure and, as such, apply some to processing.
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