Nuachtlitir Eanáir 2020
Football Hurling Club General JANUARY 2020 NUACHTLITIR EANÁIR 2020 FOR NEWS, VIDEOS AND FIXTURES www.gaa.ie Football Hurling Club General MEMBERSHIP, COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA PROTECTION AS YOU MAY BE AWARE, THERE HAS that came into effect in 2018. This BEEN CONSIDERABLE FOCUS ON THE is good legislation for everyone as it GAA’S SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY AND protects our right to privacy and gives SOME OF ITS IMPLICATIONS, FROM people the ability to control how their A DATA PROTECTION PERSPECTIVE, personal information is used. It gives this OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS. SOME OF control by placing much greater onus on WHAT HAS BEEN SAID IS TRUE, SOME IS organisations or companies that hold INACCURATE AND SOME IS COMPLETELY our data (Data Controllers). In a legal MISLEADING. IT IS WORTH REITERATING context, GAA clubs are Data Controllers, SOME OF THE KEY POINTS TO TRY TO as they hold personal data relating to club BRING SOME CLARITY. members, and as a result are obliged by law to manage that data appropriately. WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT? There has been a lot of traction in the There are lots of aspects to managing National Media and the general public data ‘appropriately’ but some of the regarding the GAA’s Social Media main requirements are to keep data policy, which was published in 2018 and safe, secure and to use it only for circulated to all clubs previously, and specified purposes. In addition, data in particular the GAA’s policy regarding controllers have to guarantee certain Social Media Direct Messaging tools, ‘privacy rights’ to individuals including including Whatsapp (but not just providing a copy of all information held Whatsapp – all messaging applications of or deleting information if so requested.
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