Providers of an electronic communication service must protect the security of their service by ensuring that personal data is accessed by authorized persons only.\u00a0 Personal data must be protected from destruction, loss or accidental alteration or other unlawful or unauthorized forms of processing.\u00a0 There must be a security policy on the processing of personal data.<\/p>\n
In the case of infringement of personal data, the service provider must inform the national authority within 24 hours. If the infringement is likely to harm the personal data or privacy of a subscriber or an individual the service provider must also inform the subscriber or individual in question except if the service provider has put in place technological protection measures that make the data incomprehensible to any party without authorized access.<\/p>\n
Users must give their consent for information to be stored in their terminal equipment and in relation to access to such equipment.\u00a0 The user must receive clear and comprehensive information about the purpose of the storage or access. \u00a0These provisions protect the private life of users from malicious software such as viruses or spyware and they also apply to cookies.\u00a0 Cookies are hidden information exchanged between an internet and web server which are stored in a file on the user\\’s equipment.\u00a0 Their original purpose was to retain information between sessions.\u00a0 They may be used to monitor net surfers\\’ activity.<\/p>\n\n
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Data Protection Law The EU has been central in promoting data protection laws.\u00a0 The EU data protection directive applies to data processed by an automated means such as a computer or contained in or intended to be part of a non-automated filing system such as traditional paper filing.\u00a0 It does not cover processing in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,255],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18714,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions\/18714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}