Mary Lou McDonald
Question:276. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the number of data protection breaches identified within his Department in 2019. [33843/20]
View answerTuesday, 3 November 2020
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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.