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		<title>Innovation, Information and the Internet: Modernising Copyright Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DRI is organising a conference on copyright reform this Friday (21st October) and would encourage anyone with an interest in the topic to attend. The event is free and you can register online at http://www.dublincopyrightconference.com/. Full details:
Innovation, Information and the Internet: Modernising Copyright Law
When: Friday 21st October 2011, 1.00pm &#8211; 5.00pm (a sandwich lunch will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2011/10/17/innovation-information-and-the-internet-modernising-copyright-law/</link>
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		<title>Garda who abused phone records to spy on ex will not be prosecuted, will keep job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent media reports have confirmed that a Garda detective sergeant will not face criminal prosecution and will keep her job despite abusing the data retention system to spy on an ex-boyfriend.
In November 2010 the annual report of the judge who oversees the data retention system confirmed earlier reports that the sergeant, who then worked in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2011/09/02/garda-who-abused-phone-records-to-spy-on-ex-will-not-be-prosecuted-will-keep-job/</link>
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		<title>Submission to the Copyright Review Committee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s our submission to the Copyright Review Committee:
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		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2011/07/18/submission-to-the-copyright-review-ctte/</link>
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		<title>Submission on the IP Enforcement Directive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was the last day for submissions to the European Commission consultation on the IP Enforcement Directive and we&#8217;re very grateful to Alan Toner for putting together a short submission emphasising some of the many problems with it. Full text after the jump.
Dear Sir or Madam
I am writing on behalf of Digital Rights Ireland Ltd. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2011/03/31/submission-on-the-ip-enforcement-directive/</link>
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		<title>Garda plans for web blocking referred to Data Protection Commissioner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our last post we mentioned Garda plans to introduce web blocking into Ireland.
One of the many problems with blocking systems is that they require ISPs to take additional steps to monitor users, resulting in real risks to privacy. These risks are amplified in the case of the Garda proposals which &#8211; incredibly &#8211; would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2011/03/29/garda-plans-for-web-blocking-referred-to-data-protection-commissioner/</link>
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		<title>Garda plans to introduce web blocking in Ireland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year we revealed that the Department of Justice was working on secret plans to introduce internet filtering in Ireland. Now, despite a complete lack of any legislation, public consultation or democratic discussion, these plans have moved to the implementation stage.
In a letter which was leaked to us, Gardai have asked Irish ISPs to block [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2011/03/29/garda-plans-to-introduce-web-blocking-in-ireland/</link>
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		<title>Judge&#8217;s report reveals allegations that Garda used phone records to spy on her ex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Tighe has an important story in today&#8217;s Sunday Times about apparent abuse by a garda of the data retention system. Unfortunately it&#8217;s behind a paywall, but I&#8217;ve taken the liberty of scanning the hardcopy and placing it here as it raises a number of fundamental questions about the safeguards which are in place against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2011/02/20/judges-report-reveals-allegations-that-garda-used-phone-records-to-spy-on-her-ex/</link>
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		<title>Data retention agreement between Department of Justice and telcos leaked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice and various Irish ISPs / telecommunications providers have been in negotiations for some time now as to how the Data Retention Bill will be applied once passed. The first draft of an agreement between them was leaked in September 2009 &#8211; now a second draft of this agreement has been leaked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2010/09/20/data-retention-agreement-between-department-of-justice-and-telcos-leaked/</link>
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		<title>In defence of online anonymity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a week when whistleblowing by an anonymous blogger was crucial to exposing problems in the Irish Red Cross it becomes all the more important to stand up for the right to online anonymity. The following is an attempt to make the case for the social value of anonymous speech. A shorter version appeared in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2010/08/29/in-defence-of-online-anonymity/</link>
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		<title>Blocking of innocent websites by O2 Ireland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted from EDRiI-Gram]
The Irish mobile operator O2 has acknowledged accidentally blocking the
image hosting website IMGUR through its system for blocking alleged child
abuse material. There appears to have been no indication that there was, in
fact, any illegal material hosted on that site. Furthermore, it is not
obvious on what basis O2 could have made the decision to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.digitalrights.ie/2010/07/14/blocking-of-innocent-websites-by-o2-ireland/</link>
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