A decision to post a congratulatory message regarding the success of the Public Services Card’s online form at a national awards ceremony was met with some scepticism from officials inside the Department of Social Protection.

The Road Safety Authority specifically queried the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection as to whether any “red flag” had been raised by an interim report into the Public Services Card by the Data Protection Commissioner, but received no definitive answer.

A digital rights advocacy body is to bring the country’s first “mass action” against the State regarding alleged infringements of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the case of the Public Services Card (PSC).