Live issues in Irish digital identity
Live issues, ongoing controversies, recent outages, and the regulator rulings that matter. We publish a plain-English explainer within 24 hours of every Data Protection Commission decision, Coimisiún na Meán enforcement action, court ruling or significant policy announcement that touches Irish digital identity. This page is the index.
Active stories
The Public Services Card controversy
The Department of Social Protection's expansion of the PSC into a de facto national identity card — the 2019 DPC investigation, the 2021 enforcement notice, the legal aftermath, the 2026 Bill that goes further.
MyGovID outage log
Running record of MyGovID, MyWelfare and Revenue outages. Updated within an hour of confirmed reports. The page reporters cite when they need to demonstrate uptime patterns.
The DPC ruling, explained
What the Data Protection Commission actually found about PSC processing, in plain English, with links to every primary document.
Coming soon
Online Safety Code criticism
The civil-society response to mandatory age verification and the planned MyGovID-based government age-assurance app.
What data does MyGovID collect?
The Subject Access Request walkthrough, with a sample SAR response annotated.
The PSC and the right to access state services
What you can and can't be required to give up to use a public service.
EUDI Wallet — what the Council debate didn't say
The provisions of eIDAS 2.0 that survived the political compromise and the ones that didn't.
How we publish issue coverage
- Every claim links to a primary source — the DPC decision document, the Bill text on Oireachtas.ie, the court judgment, the ministerial press release.
- Every page is dated and updated. Major updates flag the change at the top of the page for 30 days.
- Where we name an organisation in criticism, we offer the organisation a right of reply before publication. The response (or its absence) is published alongside.
- Editorial standards in full: code of ethics. Sources we use: sourcing policy.
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If you know about an active issue we haven't covered — an outage, a procurement decision, an unpublished memo, a DPC complaint, a policy circular — please send it to tips@myid.ie. We treat all sources confidentially.