Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The issue is the data is being gathered. People will not be aware. This legislation creates a circumstance where persons may have large amounts of data gathered around and about them of which they will not even be aware. Their consent will not have been sought. A legislative basis will be used as the rationale, namely, we are gathering data about you based on the Road Traffic Act but there is no constraint within that Act that says the data we are gathering about you will only be related to road traffic.