This month, The Data Protection Commission (DPC) will difficulty a survey questionnaire to a consultant pattern of sports activities golf equipment throughout the spectrum of voluntary {and professional} sports activities in Ireland. The survey will help the DPC in studying in regards to the degree of consciousness and understanding of information safety within the sports activities sector.

The DPC recognises the necessary position of sport in Irish society in any respect ranges; particularly, the worth to youngsters collaborating in sport. The intention of this engagement is to supply help and steering to the sports activities sector in assembly their information safety compliance obligations. It can be to help folks, who take part in sporting actions, to achieve a greater understanding of their rights underneath the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The survey will give attention to the usage of know-how to gather and analyse participant efficiency information, whether or not the golf equipment are conscious of their obligations by way of information safety and if the gamers are knowledgeable of this processing.  The questionnaire may even handle transparency and search for detailed info on how gamers are knowledgeable in regards to the processing of their private information, with a selected give attention to youngsters and younger folks.

The survey will probably be despatched to voluntary {and professional} golf equipment in a lot of totally different sports activities. This  consists of golf equipment linked to the next: Football Association of Ireland (FAI), Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA)

The responses to the survey will enable us to achieve an understanding of the wants of the sports activities sector by way of steering and to facilitate additional stakeholder engagements.