“Do you know where you this time last week? You may not, but the State certainly does.”
Fergal Crehan wrote a short and very clear piece for the Irish Daily Mail last month on data retention. It’s not available online, so here’s the full text: Do you know where you this time last week? You may not, but the State certainly does. …
Irish Human Rights Commission given permission to appear in DRI action
Good news from the High Court, where Mr. Justice McKechnie has given the Irish Human Rights Commission permission to appear as an amicus curiae in our challenge to data retention laws. From the Commission’s website: “This case raises important issues about the extent to which …
Liberty v. UK: European Court of Human Rights finds mass surveillance system violates the right to privacy
In the appropriately named Liberty v. The United Kingdom the European Court of Human Rights has held that a system of mass surveillance operated by the UK government to spy on all telephone calls, faxes and emails to and from Ireland was in breach of …