Wexford County Council used drones without privacy assessment

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Wexford County Council has used drones to monitor lockdown compliance in private dwellings, holiday homes, and 68 caravan parks without carrying out a privacy assessment — which has 'stunned' a local data protection consultant.

The local authority had been carrying out the surveillance since at least early April, according to documents released under freedom of information legislation, with any allegedly pertinent information to be passed onto gardaí.