Taxing and woolly data retention laws will discourage new business – The Irish Times – Fri, Apr 15, 2011
KARLIN LILLINGTONThe cost and complexity of new data legislation creates difficulties for new investorsAS THE implications of our recently enacted data retention legislation sink in, Continue Reading
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?
A cartoon for the week which saw both international data privacy day and the enactment of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act, 2011 (No 3 of 2011, not yet available on pdf, but see the Continue Reading
Beware of gullible politicos tinkering with data privacy – Karlin Lillington the in Irish Times
Today is international data privacy day, and It’s a shame we do so little to mark the eventWITH THE Seanad passing the data retention – oops, communications – Bill without amendment Continue Reading
Setting tone from the Top | The DOBlog
“Privacy by Design” is becoming the mantra of Data Protection enforcement world wide. Simply cutting and pasting a solution from another jurisdiction into an Irish or EU context Continue Reading
Traffic Data Retention, Irish-style, returns to the legislative agenda
The Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009, published last week, has caused a bit of a stir in this morning's newspapers. It will give effect to EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC of 15 Continue Reading
The power of letters
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties), has an editorial letter published in today's Guardian which begins: Sir - 75 years ago today, in a Britain Continue Reading
Data retention ironies
I can't make up my mind whether it's ironic or not that the European Court of Justice has upheld the Data Retention Directive on Safer Internet Day. I'll let Digital Rights Ireland tell the Continue Reading
Google and Privacy: the facts speak for themselves
From the BBC (hat tip also to Canadian Privacy Law Blog; advance warning from The Register): Google is to halve the amount of time it stores users' personal search data in response to continued Continue Reading
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