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Govt Bodies and Sharing of Information

  • 05-08-2010 10:10pm
    #1
    chasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,
    This article was mentioned to me today, and having read it myself i am wondering what is the "legislative provision" used by the Dept of Social Protection to obtain the information they describe?

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0803/breaking18.html

    I looked at the data protection/privacy section on the injuries board website for instance,and an ordinary lay person like myself would assume that other than respondants/health professionals etc related to the claim, a person's details are not passed on, yet reading the above article this does not seem to be the case.

    Now don't get me wrong, i'm not complaining about the Dept clamping down on fraud, (it's long overdue imo), i'm just interested to know what "legislative provision is being used, because it isn't named in the article or the one Govt body that i did look up.

    Thanks in advance:)


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  • #2
    TJM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 548 ✭✭✭TJM


    This report from the Data Protection Commissioner has the background at pp. 19-21:
    http://www.welfare.ie/EN/Topics/Documents/ODPCReport.pdf

    Given the track record of Welfare in relation to data breaches and employee snooping in files one might be wary of this type of bulk information sharing.


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