Postcode privacy rights provision ‘useless’

An advocacy group dedicated to online privacy rights has described proposed data protection legislation for the country’s new postcodes as “toothless and useless”.

Digital Rights Ireland’s comments on the bill published by the Department of Communication, Energy, and Natural Resources (DCENR) comes as the Data Protection Commissioner also acknowledged the wording of the bill governing the use of Eircode, but reiterated its preference for a different design of postcode.

“It is a great step forward that privacy is being considered at all by DCENR in relation to this issue,” said Antoin O’Lachtnain of Digital Rights Ireland.