Comments on: Gardaí Leaking Mobile Phone Records?

By: Digital Rights Ireland » Gardaí investigated for selling access to case files

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:49:42 +0000

[...] There appears to be an ongoing problem with a minority of Gardaí abusing their position by selling or leaking confidential information. The most recent episode involves allegations that Gardaí have been illegally supplying information to insurance companies. The Sunday Tribune has an update: NEARLY 50 serving gardai have been interviewed as part of an internal inquiry into allegations that members of the force supplied confidential information to insurance companies to help them settle road traffic claims quickly. [...]

By: Lewy

Lewy — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:31:38 +0000

Heres a good example of why someone doing something legal would need a right to privacy.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81695

Plenty of relevant stuff in here as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy

By: Ken McGuire :: Creative Imagination

Ken McGuire :: Creative Imagination — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:41:41 +0000

Data Retention Abuse? Phone Records Leaked?…

Digital Rights Ireland has an interesting article on the Gardai leaking confidential mobile phone records to the press following on from the recent hunger strike in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin…
Take a read…
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By: Jim @ Mobile Phones

Jim @ Mobile Phones — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:04:31 +0000

Here something I covered over on my website

http://www.mobileireland.net/2007/01/02/fbi-can-track-phones-in-the-usa/

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:47:05 +0000

Fishy,
Your comments suggest that you genuinely believe A, The Gardai have an interest in your phone conversations. B, That a Chief Superintendent would authorise it and C, That a Judge would also accept it.
How could that happen if it was for personal or perverted reasons? Seriously, they have better things to do that hear you talk.
I also assume based on your above arguement that you believe Gardai should not be allowed enter houses under any circumstances nor search people under any circumstances nor just about all powers they have. As under your arguement they could enter and/or search your house.
The fact that innocent law abiding people dont suffer this proves the law and powers Gardai use is correct and used within the law.

By: Fishy

Fishy — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:31:53 +0000

Andy-
We have a constitutionally based right to privacy. The logic of your assertion is that right is only of value to criminals.

The rest of us could have no objection to a law which compells us to walk around naked in all-glass homes.

Many law abiding people have things they would like to keep private. The constitution gives them the right to do so.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:58:34 +0000

I don’t understand that so many people are against this kind of use of new technology in the interest of security. If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear!

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:04:07 +0000

Even though some comments seem to think it is a slow legal process, the technical side is not so difficult. It wouldn’t be so easy to tap and listen to digital signals from a phone on the fly but to identify where calls from a particular mobile in St Pats were going wouldn’t be much of a problem. In effect the story only says that calls were made to Afghanistan. I’d say there aren’t too many calls from Ireland to there and the country code would be easy to sift out from the data. I suggest a guard leaked the info to a pal in the Herald.

By: Micheal O Dowd

Micheal O Dowd — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:38:54 +0000

Bizarre story, but it doesn’t really prove anything.

Certainly the phone records could not have shown how “…They were seeking regular direction on what they should do and there was no doubt that a Mr Big was in charge.”

Unless of couse Bin Laden registers his mobile phone to get the free credit…

By: Jack M

Jack M — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:39:49 +0000

Have we jun jumped with this story? In no way does this indicate that the phone records were passed to An Garda Suíochana and let me tell you as fact that the process for retrieval of telephone records takes quite some time (Cellular networks would be generating just short of 1 million calls in an hour and lets pretend the Tali’s were taking services from multiple vendors). The article could be based on primary evidence e.g., visual evidence of use. Perhaps the Gardaí were listening in some way or had requested triangulation on the GSM cell networks from the mobile companies.

Oh, and if you think that the boys in blue are efficient in that check section 64 of the 2005 act. Required signature of a Chief Superintendent. So delays and more delays. The information is also trasmitted via fax.

If you’d like a laugh view this, with sound: http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-wh-nsawiretapping,0,1906650.flash

Parody of the US NSA tapping allegations.