Collection of data queried in relation to smart-meter electricity use

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State’s privacy watchdog reviewing legal basis for harvesting of half-hourly data by ESB Networks

Digital Rights Ireland claims this has been done regardless of whether customers consent to the processing of their data or not. It has questioned the legal basis for the collection of the data and has called on the Data Protection Commission to investigate what the company is doing.

A spokesman for ESB Networks said that it was satisfied that the smart meter programme was “being delivered in compliance with applicable data privacy laws”. Digital Rights Ireland queried the company’s data protection impact assessment, saying that it did not address the necessity and proportionality of the proposed data collection.

“ESB Networks has now done exactly what it promised it would not do,” said TJ McIntyre, chairman of Digital Rights Ireland and an associate professor of law at UCD.

 

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