430. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the proportion of his Department's digital data storage held on State-owned infrastructure, on private infrastructure within the State, and on infrastructure outside the State, in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and the annual expenditure on data storage over that pe…
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431. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the total volume of digital data storage, in terabytes or petabytes, held or contracted by his Department and public bodies under its aegis, in each of the last 20 years. [74045/26]
828. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has engaged with the Data Protection Commission regarding the use of ad hoc video recording by businesses for the purpose of protecting staff and defending legal claims; and whether any cross-departmental guidance is being considered. [34521/26]
1320. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has undertaken any review of the adequacy of the current legal and regulatory framework governing the use by private sector organisations of facial biometric processing technologies for identification, verification, authentication, or database matching purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19…
1321. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether, following recent regulatory findings by the Data Protection Commission concerning the use of facial matching technology by public bodies, his Department has examined whether additional statutory safeguards, codes of practice, or legislative clarification are required in relation to the use of facial biometric technologies by …
1322. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has engaged with the Data Protection Commission regarding the use of facial image capture or facial biometric processing technologies by private sector organisations, including financial institutions and retailers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19600/26]
1323. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether he will consider the introduction of policy measures or legislation to ensure that, where private sector organisations deploy facial biometric technologies, individuals are provided with clear prior information, meaningful choice including a non-biometric alternative where appropriate, and accessible complaint and redress mech…
779. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the procedures which are in place within the Irish Prison Service to ensure compliance with GDPR principles of data minimisation and purpose limitation when communicating with staff; whether any data-protection breach assessments have been undertaken in relation to bulk email communications involving private email addresses; and if he …
780. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether contact details collected from Irish Prison Service staff during the Covid-19 pandemic for the specific purpose of contact tracing, and on the express assurance that such details would not be used for any other purpose, were subsequently used for wider HR communications; whether any data-protection breach assessment was conduct…
781. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether any personal data breach arising within the Irish Prison Service has been notified to the Data Protection Commission in the past three years in relation to internal staff communications; and if not, the way in which compliance with GDPR breach-notification obligations is assured. [7786/26]
586. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether a data protection impact assessment has been completed in respect of the proposed use of a State-issued digital wallet or MyGovID for online age-verification purposes; if not, when such an assessment will be completed; and whether it will be published prior to any legislative proposal being brought before the Houses of the Oireac…
587. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether his Department has conducted a formal proportionality assessment under Article 52 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in respect of requiring age verification for access to lawful online content by adults; and if not, whether such an assessment will be completed before any pilot or legislative measure proce…
588. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether he will confirm that the proposed age-verification system would apply to adult users accessing lawful online content; and whether his Department has assessed the impact of such a requirement on adults’ rights to freedom of expression, privacy, and anonymous or pseudonymous communication. [6063/26]
589. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether he intends to place explicit statutory limits on the authority of Coimisiún na Meán to require age-verification measures, including limiting such requirements to specific categories of content; and whether such limits will be set out in primary legislation. [6064/26]
590. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether he will confirm that no individual will be denied access to lawful online content solely on the basis of declining to verify their age using a State-issued digital identity system; and whether this principle will be explicitly provided for in legislation. [6065/26]
547. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps each Department is taking to improve data sharing, risk assessment and governance coordination for services involving children, vulnerable adults and high-risk health environments. [65037/25]
827. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide details of information of individuals in receipt of social welfare that are passed on to Turas Nua or Seetec from the Department of Social Protection; under what GDPR legislation is this transaction happening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24310/25]