Probe into PSC sparked by digital rights ‘mass action’
The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was the body that instigated the expansion of use of the PSC in 2016 to services outside its welfare remit, such as for passport or driving licence applications. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins
The Data Protection Commission has commenced an investigation into the State’s Public Services Card on the back of a “mass action” taken against the PSC by digital rights advocates.
The probe, the latest of a string of such inquiries taken by the DPC into the card, resulted from 670 identical complaints being made to the Commission regarding the use of the card for services other than for welfare purposes, the card’s initial purpose.
