No winners, just losers in Public Services Card public relations fiasco

The controversy over the Public Services Card appears to be unspooling on a public relations basis, rather than a legal one, writes Cianan Brennan.

No winners, just losers in Public Services Card public relations fiasco

The controversy over the Public Services Card appears to be unspooling on a public relations basis, rather than a legal one, writes Cianan Brennan.

The Data Protection Commissioner’s highly critical report into the PSC project was finally published on Tuesday, which is all to the good. That it appears to have been released under duress, given the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection had claimed as recently as last Friday that to publish the report would emphatically not be in the public interest, is interesting but now also moot.

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