Thursday, February 28, 2013

Illegally obtained digital evidence: Mind your Ps and Qs

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"While the law provides for court orders to be made for the preservation and obtaining of evidence for the purpose of future legal pr...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Impact of the Criminal Justice Act 2011 on cybercrime law

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One of the most important recent developments in Irish criminal law has been the enactment of the Criminal Justice Act 2011 which makes su...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Government locked itself in Dáil and wont come out until Internet stops laughing at them, says spokesperson

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Best commentary so far on the Irish social media debate . Here's an excerpt: TD’s are said to be currently staging a sit in, making...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Legislation is not the answer to abuse on social media

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I had an opinion piece in last week's Sunday Business Post in response to the latest Irish panic about the internet. As it's behind...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Cloud surveillance in Ireland: coming soon to a server near you?

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There's an excellent article by Peter Swire in the current International Data Privacy Law journal titled " From real-time interce...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Voyeurism as harassment

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There's an case reported in today's Irish Independent about a man convicted of hiding a camera in the shower of a women's lock...
Monday, December 03, 2012

Irish mobile phone companies: still spammy

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Last year, following a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner, I finally received an apology from Carphone Warehouse for multipl...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

Of hyperbole and credulous journalism

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According to an uncritical report in the Irish Times today a court case will have "significant ramifications for Irish society"....
Monday, November 26, 2012

High Court confirms standard of review in data protection appeals

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The recent decision in Nowak v. Data Protection Commissioner will be essential reading for all data protection practitioners as in it th...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Scenes from the history of the IEDR

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The .ie Domain Registry (the IEDR ) has been in the news lately following a compromise which left Google.ie and Yahoo.ie redirected to an I...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

High Court orders Quinns to reveal passwords to receiver

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In an interesting decision the High Court (Kelly J.) yesterday ordered that members of the Quinn family must provide passwords to perso...
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Friday, November 09, 2012

Irish newspapers have some curious views about search engines

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The Irish newspaper industry seems to have chosen today for a bout of collective hyperbole about search engines. Here's what the Examin...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Internet betting: Irish government seeks to introduce blocking on no evidence and against EU findings

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Roulette , originally uploaded by discopalace There's been surprisingly little coverage of Irish government plans to require bl...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

High Court: Bloggers can benefit from journalistic privilege

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There's quite a lot to digest in the recent decision of Hogan J. in Cornec v. Morrice & Ors . Most of the judgment deals with wider...
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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, June 18, 2012

Internet freedom in Ireland: apathy is not a policy

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The OSCE Dublin Conference on Internet Freedom is just starting ( livestream ) where numerous superb speakers will be discussing fundamental...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Record numbers of complaints, data breaches and more (all on a shoestring budget)

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The Data Protection Commissioner's 2011 Annual Report was published today. While the whole document is well worth reading, a few highli...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

Surveillance up, but bugs being discovered by targets

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Smoke alarm claimed to have been bugged by gardaí John Mooney and Mark Tighe have an detailed piece in today's Sunday Times ari...
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Fresh claims that Irish police have been hacked

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It's been an embarrassing time recently for Irish police, following allegations that Lulzsec hackers were able to compromise the persona...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Eircom admits user disconnection is illegal; wants other Irish ISPs to do it anyway

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You couldn't make it up. Eircom, not content with shooting itself in the foot by agreeing to introduce a "three strikes" syste...