Ireland To Check EVerything

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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WARNING: See U.S.

[Baloo Ursidae]

Seriously. The United States is starting to get scary what with John Poindexter running the brand new Information Awareness Office at once-honorable DARPA.

Double Standard?

[glenstar]

Why is no one as outraged at this story as they are at the story just below it?

I mean, basically Ireland (along with the US) is doing something very similar to what China is doing, but we kind of let that slide. Why? Seriously, I am curious...