Group warns of postcode project dangers

A digital rights advocacy group has echoed the Data Protection Commissioner’s privacy concerns about the new postcode and has warned Communications Minister Alex White that his department is "taking a dangerous and needless step into the unknown" with the €27m Eircode project.

Group warns of postcode project dangers

Digital Rights Ireland has also rejected a Department of Communications official’s claim that the group is “broadly satisfied” with Eircode, the second time the department’s submission to an Oireachtas committee has been questioned.

In a letter to Mr White, Antoin O’Lachtnain of Digital Rights Ireland said the group is “puzzled as to how the firmly conveyed views of the Data Protection Commissioner about individual house coding were put to one side when the requirements for the code were totally revised without consultation in 2010”.

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