A person who makes a whistleblower disclosure about the conduct of an undertaking or associates in relation to the provision of electronic communications network or service or associated facilities on reasonable grounds that it is true or that it may be true and to be of significant significance to justify disclosure incurs no civil or criminal liability.\u00a0 COMREG may not divulge identity without consent except as may be necessary to ensure a proper investigation.\u00a0 It is a civil wrong to victimize a whistleblower.<\/p>\n
The 2007 Act provided increased protections for whistleblowers who divulge information to the Commission in good faith. \u00a0They enjoy increased protection against victimisation and other adverse treatment and consequences.\u00a0 No civil or criminal liability is incurred in relation to a protected disclosure.<\/p>\n\n
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Investigatory Powers COMREG has significant investigation powers.\u00a0 It has wide information-gathering powers.\u00a0 It can carry out investigations in relation to matters relating to supply and access to electronic telecommunications and networks.\u00a0 It can compile and disseminate information. It can collect, compile, extract and publish information from undertakings relating to the provision of electronic services.\u00a0 COMREG […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[254],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298"}],"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=19298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31371,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298\/revisions\/31371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}