Written answers
Tuesday, 3 November 2020
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Data Protection
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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276. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of data protection breaches identified within his Department in 2019. [33843/20]
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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There were five incidents involving data protection breaches in my Department in 2019.
All breaches were reported to and assessed by the Department’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) in accordance with guidance issued by the Data Protection Commission. In assessing the potential risk for each breach, the DPO takes into account the nature and cause of the breach, the type and volume of data exposed, the corrective steps taken and the likely impact on the individual(s) concerned.
In each of five cases referred to above, the DPO assessed the risk of the breach to be low which did not require notification to the Data Protection Commission.
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