David Rooney’s Irish Times cartoon neatly sums up the problems with data retention. A small detail is shown below – click on that to open the full cartoon in a new window.

(Many thanks for permission to use the cartoon.)
September 7th, 2006
We’re happy to announce that Dr. Eoin O’Dell will be joining DRI as a director. Eoin is a Lecturer in law and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and is an acknowledged expert in areas including privacy, defamation, media regulation and freedom of expression. Amongst other things, he was a member of the Department of Justice Legal Advisory Group on Defamation, and he has long been active in promoting public debate about freedom of expression and privacy issues.
September 7th, 2006