Showing posts with label data retention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data retention. Show all posts
Friday, May 03, 2024

Data retention in Ireland: When European law meets national recalcitrance

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I've just finished writing a chapter on data retention law in Ireland for a forthcoming collection edited by Eleni Kosta and Irene Kama...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Law Society Annual Human Rights Conference

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I spoke at the Law Society's 2015 Annual Human Rights Conference  last Saturday about privacy and surveillance online in light of recen...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Two data retention cases pose questions for three Ministers for Justice

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Two cases have now been brought in Ireland seeking to take advantage of the Digital Rights Ireland decision from the European Court of Jus...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Mobile phone records as evidence in Irish courts

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Just before Christmas a murder trial collapsed when the prosecution failed to lay the correct evidential basis for admitting mobile phone...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

ECJ finds data retention unacceptable in a democratic society

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My preliminary thoughts on our data retention victory, in yesterday's Irish Independent : This is a significant decision for Irish ...
Friday, June 07, 2013

Quote of the day

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The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they do: that's why they'r...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Hillsborough: using police databases to smear the dead

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Yesterday saw the publication of the Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel which confirmed many of the criticisms made by the fami...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Will the ECJ stymie attempts to identify internet users?

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This time last year I blogged about Bonnier Audio v. Perfect Communication , the Swedish case which questioned whether data retained u...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

Irish documents on interception of communications and surveillance

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I've uploaded a few documents recently which might be useful to anyone interested in issues of surveillance and interception of communic...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Analysis of the new Data Retention Act

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Ronan Lupton (barrister and also chair of Irish telecom industry body ALTO ) has written a particularly useful and well informed analysis o...
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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Judge's report reveals allegations that Garda used phone records to spy on her ex

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Mark Tighe has an important story in today's Sunday Times about apparent abuse by a garda of the data retention system. Unfortunately i...
Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Are Norwich Pharmacal orders compatible with the Data Retention Directive?

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Interesting news from Sweden, where a court has made a preliminary reference to the ECJ which calls into question the use of information hel...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Google Transparency Report launched

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The New York Times has a story today about Google's new Transparency Report . The Report - which expands on an earlier initiative - t...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

ECJ upholds Data Retention Directive

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The big news of the day is that the European Court of Justice has upheld the Data Retention Directive against the challenge by the Irish Go...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

ECHR expands scope of privacy rights?

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OUT-LAW has details of a recent European Court of Human Rights decision which may push out the boundaries of privacy rights - in particular ...