English DPP warns against “relentless pressure of a security State”
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 …
Data Retention – Advocate General recommends Irish Government challenge should be rejected
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has just given his Opinion (summary, PDF) on the Irish Government’s challenge and has recommended to the Court that the challenge should be rejected, holding that the Data Retention Directive was correctly dealt with as an …
Data Retention – Advocate General will give opinion on Irish Challenge in two weeks
The agenda of the European Court of Justice has just listed Tuesday, October 14 for the Advocate General’s opinion on the State’s challenge to the Data Retention Directive. This won’t be a final decision – the Advocate General gives an opinion which is merely advisory …
Mixed messages on data loss
There’s some good news and some not-so-good news in the Irish Times today on how the government is responding to its ongoing problems with losing personal data. First, the not-so-good news. In response to a parliamentary question from Labour leader Ruairí Quinn, it emerged that …