651. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether the Government has considered alternative and less privacy-invasive measures for protecting children online, including the mandatory disabling of social media algorithms by default, the commencement of Section 30 of the Data Protection Act 2018 which has never been brought into force and would prohibit the targeting of children with advertising and algorithms, and the meaningful regulation of online advertising; the reason these measures have not been prioritised ahead of a mass digital identification scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30140/26]

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651. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether the Government has considered alternative and less privacy-invasive measures for protecting children online, including the mandatory disabling of social media algorithms by default, the commencement of Section 30 of the Data Protection Act 2018 which has never been brought into force and would prohibit the targeting of children with advertising and algorithms, and the meaningful regulation of online advertising; the reason these measures have not been prioritised ahead of a mass digital identification scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30140/26]

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