Data Protection Commissioner has marked Government's card with PSC outcome 

The dropping of the Department of Social Protection’s legal challenge to the DPC may indeed represent a seismic shift in the Government’s attitude to data protection, one of the key modern concerns for most western democracies

The Public Services Card may still exist, but it cannot be made mandatory for anything.

It is hard to understate the importance of what happened on Friday with the long-running Public Services Card (PSC) saga, nor to view it as anything else other than a massive win for Ireland’s beleaguered Data Protection Commission.

To recap, the PSC has been around since 2011 when it was introduced as an identification tool for citizens to access welfare payments and services.