Author Archives: Editor

Help Digital Rights Ireland

Posted on 11/02/2006 by Editor
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Hello there, Simon is very much away from his computer this weekend. However, he has left me, a kind of robot facsimile, to tell you about Digital Rights Ireland’s drive to raise some funds to do good things. Our suggested … Continue reading →

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Automatic Number Plate Recognition PQ

Posted on 07/02/2006 by Editor
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A little while ago, I said that if the Irish Times wasn’t going to ask follow up questions on the announced-over-Christmas plan to bring in an Automatic Number Plate Recognition system for use by the Gardai, then tiresome obsessives would … Continue reading →

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DNA Databases

Posted on 03/02/2006 by Editor
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I see the Minister has said formally what alert readers will know already- that he intends to implement the Law Reform Commission’s recommendation to introduce a DNA database, but that he won’t be implementing their safeguards to protect citizen’s privacy.

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A Model Exchange

Posted on 11/01/2006 by Editor
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From the Comments to Liz McManus Blog [To preface my comments, I’m the Mayor of Letterkenny and have been blogging actively since June ‘05] On my website, I try to include everything I can that is of relevance in the … Continue reading →

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Data Retention: Proinsias De Rossa responds to email

Posted on 11/01/2006 by Editor
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There was some discussion of my previous post on Proinsias De Rossa’s vote, making him the only Irish MEP to vote in favour of the Data Retention Directive passed in December of last year. (More comments here and here) I … Continue reading →

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Liz McManus Blog

Posted on 06/01/2006 by Editor
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I noticed a new blog appear on Planet of the Blogs today- Liz McManus, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
She’s clearly writing it herself. More politicians ought to be at this. (And the Labour Party in particular, given that at the next election they won’t have a single TD under 50.) Continue reading →

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Technolotics

Posted on 06/01/2006 by Editor
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If I were Gareth Stack, of the Pod-and-videocast Technolotics, I would contact Bernie Goldbach and ask him if he knew any way of getting a 2-5 min segment from Digital Rights Ireland for his show. I would also read the … Continue reading →

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Garda Traffic Monitoring Plan Raises Questions

Posted on 04/01/2006 by Editor
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Garda Plans for Traffic Monitoring may go further than first suggested. Continue reading →

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Data Retention: Brian Crowley’s Explanation

Posted on 29/12/2005 by Editor
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Mr. Crowley is somewhat misleading in his communication to a constituent.
“I should point out that the law at present on Data Retention in Ireland is not affected or impacted by this legislation” does not reflect the full effect of a Directive. While no Directive comes into force immediately, an uninformed reader might take from this that it has no effect on Irish law at all. Continue reading →

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Data Retention: De Rossa’s Explanation

Posted on 19/12/2005 by Editor
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I haven’t seen this anywhere else and a number of the comments in the earlier post voiced a specific dissapointment with Proinsias De Rossa’s decision, alone amongst Irish MEPs, to vote in favour of the Data Retention Directive.
So in the interestes of fairness, I reproduce below his statement on the matter. Continue reading →

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