IT Law in Ireland

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can sc...

I wrote an opinion piece for the Sunday Business Post on the recent Bord Gais laptop loss - using it as a jumping off point to argue for a ...

After their inconclusive action against Eircom , this time the music industry is suing UPC and BT . Proceedings were issued on Tuesday acc...

The long awaited Digital Britain Report (pdf) has stirred up a great deal of comment - particularly in relation to filesharing - though litt...

Tony Bunyan is one of the stalwarts of the civil liberties movement in the UK and Europe. As a journalist, writer and founder of Statewatch...

John O'Brien - a former Detective Chief Superintendent - has an interesting opinion piece in the Irish Times arguing that the Surveillan...

I'm lucky enough to be at Computers Freedom & Privacy 2009 , which has just started in George Washington University with a opening ...

Can a chatroom operator rely on the hosting defence under the E-Commerce Directive ? In the first Irish case to consider the scope of the Di...

Under Irish law a designated High Court judge (currently Mr. Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill) is assigned to oversee the operation of telepho...

Shameless plug ahead - I'm happy to say that I will be teaching next year on a new course offered by the UCD School of Computer Science ...

The Internet Watch Foundation has just issued its 2008 Annual Report (PDF) where it offers this defence of its role in the Wikipedia blocki...

Remember the High Court challenge brought by Realm Communications (of Irish Psychics Live fame) against industry self-regulatory body RegTel...

I've a piece in today's Sunday Business Post on the Department of Justice's new Surveillance Bill . For some reason it's no...

In light of recent EU moves towards internet filtering now might be a good time to point to a paper by Colin Scott and myself where we arg...

European law requires data retention - tracking details of every email you send. But data retention is easily circumvented by using anonymou...

One of the most important recent developments at EU level - and one that's received surprisingly little media attention ( The Register ...

Statutory Instrument No. 93 of 2009 has made some significant changes to electronic discovery in Ireland. McCann Fitzgerald have summarised...

Significant developments at European level, where the European Parliament's report Security and Fundamental Freedoms on the Internet ha...

Remarkable news from the Sydney Morning Herald : The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on ...

Henry Porter has been one of the most astute observers of the state of civil liberties in the UK in recent years. In this column he paints...