Data Protection
Dail Éireann — 2022-02-17
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

I accept the point made by the Minister, but the reality is that the court system is structured in such a way that convictions are published, decisions are made and judgements are given in public. Guilty parties should not be in a position where they can request and secure the erasure of this information. They are exploiting the privacy laws and this cannot be tolerated under any circumstances. The Minister is correct in that the European Court of Justice decision of 2014 gives the right to request it, but it also gives the right in the public interest to refuse to delete that information. The reality is that the technology companies are not applying that. Once the request is made and there is a historic element to it, they are granting individuals that right and that needs to be rejected, opposed and blocked.

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Sitting date: 2022-02-17