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Listing ID: 1351
Title: Digital Rights Ireland
Description: A blog by a group of lawyers interested in, and defending, Civil, Human and Legal rights in a digital age.
Category: Society : Issues : Digital Rights
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listed on: July 16, 2008 05:00:15 PM
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Recent Posts:
| Time to take a close look at surveillance - Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:57:00 +0000 |
| Last week the Cabinet approved the heads of a Surveillance Bill which, if enacted, will allow Gardaí to break into private property to place covert video cameras and audio bugs, and to use evidence gathered in that way in criminal prosecutions. The Bill – which was already on the legislative programme but was rushed forward [...] |
| Oireachtas Committee rejects passenger records proposals - Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:18:56 +0000 |
| The Irish Times is reporting that the Joint Committee on European Scrutiny (a cross party committee which examines proposed EU legislation) has published a report which is highly critical of European proposals on passenger records.The draft Framework Decision on the Use of Passenger Name Record (PNR) for Law Enforcement is an astonishing proposal which, if [...] |
| English DPP warns against“relentless pressure of a security State” - Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:25:37 +0000 |
| The outgoing head of the Crown Prosecution Service and DPP for England and Wales, Sir Ken MacDonald QC, has used his retirement speech to warn against UK government proposals to expand data retention:As I near my conclusion, let me, in my final public speech as DPP, repeat my call for level headedness and for legislative [...] |