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Ireland To Check EVerything

Posted by Hemos on from the got-your-information dept.

ncostigan writes "The Irish Times is running a story on new legislation proposal where detailed personal data on every Irish citizen's phone and mobile calls, faxes, and e-mail and Internet usage will be retained for up to four years under a new Department of Justice Bill, Officials within the Department of Justice are understood to be seeking a legal regime similar to that mandated by Britain's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act. This 'timely' announcement just after a blackhat security conference hivercon held in Dublin this week had described similar draconian messures proposed in other EU states."

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  1. follow up by ncostigan · · Score: 3, Informative

    as a follow up. most of the major irish news networks have carried headlines to the backlash to this story. it did make front page news to a country historically allergic to civil liberties breaches. the justice minister responsible has been backtracking most of the day. lets see where it takes us.