Blog | Data Retention
Last chance to fight EU data retention
Next Tuesday, the 13th of December, the European Parliament will vote on a Data Retention Directive. This proposes to extend data retention to the Internet, and will result in your ISPs logging every email you send, every web page you visit, and everything else you …
Keeping Your Rights In An Information Age
Digital Rights Ireland (DRI), a new group aiming to “Protect Civil, Legal and Human Rights in a Digital Age”, was launched on Tuesday 6th December 2005 in Pearse Street Library, Dublin. Digital Rights Ireland is chaired by UCD Law Lecturer TJ McIntyre and is comprised of …
Euro Data Retention: Crunch Time
We have posted previously about the moves to introduce data retention, for the purposes of allowing a deliberate surveillance of citizens, on an EU-wide basis. Now we bring you an update, with some time critical information. …
Data Retention in Europe: The story so far
Political action in the European Union frequently appears to happen behind closed doors. But the breadth of the EU’s powers, and the fact that EU legislation will always take precedence over our own domestic law, even our Constitution, makes it important to keep an eye …
Parliamentary Question on Data Retention
Joe Costello TD was kind enough to place a Parliamentary Question for us asking the Minister for Justice about the use of his new data retention powers. Unfortunately the answer we received was less than helpful, with the Minister giving the blanket response that “it …
TechCamp Reflections
Digital Rights Ireland had its first outing into the public eye courtesy of a presentation at TechCamp last Saturday. I just thought it might be good to post what we learned from the experience, and to give people who were there, or who weren't …
DRI @ TechCamp
On Saturday last, DRI Chair TJ McIntyre and director Damien Mulley introduced Digital Rights Ireland at TechCamp Ireland. Although not a formal launch, which we are in the process of planning, this was our first major opportunity to introduce our aims and objectives, to gather …