People have no absolute right to fadas in names

Irish people don’t have an “absolute right” to have their names spelt correctly, the State data watchdog has ruled.

Ciarán Ó Cofaigh complained to the Data Protection Commission after medics refused to include the fada on his name because computer software does not allow for fadas. He alleges the Health Service Executive (HSE) was in breach of Article 16 of the GDPR that gives the right to people to have “inaccurate personal data” held by organisations corrected “without undue delay”.

Source: People have no absolute right to fadas in names, watchdog finds