Category Archives: Digital Rights Ireland

Matters pertaining to Digital Rights, hopefully focussing on Irish and Eruopean matters.

Ireland and the WIPO Broadcast Treaty

Posted on 13/09/2006 by Simon McGarr
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My alter ego at the McGarr Solicitors website has posted up an exchange relating to the Irish Government’s relationship to the negotiations currently occuring in Geneva at the WIPO. These are aimed at to bringing about “A Treaty on the … Continue reading →

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Data Retention: The Presumption of Innocence

Posted on 24/08/2006 by Simon McGarr
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For people looking for an introduction to one of the most pernicious aspects of Data Retention, The Midnight Court has posted what it promises will be the introduction to a series of essays on the consequences of Data Retention in … Continue reading →

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Irish Times leader on Data Retention

Posted on 07/08/2006 by Simon McGarr
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The Irish Times has an leader article today on Data Retention. A small extract: Perhaps because such legislation deals with electronic data, and the surveillance happens unseen in the background, it has not provoked significant public debate. But electronic monitoring … Continue reading →

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Why Have Data Retention?

Posted on 02/08/2006 by Simon McGarr
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Some time ago, Karlin Lillington of the Irish Times linked to details of a secret Council of Ministers questionnaire. This was drawn up in advance of any data retention legislation being in place, in November 2002. It is interesting in … Continue reading →

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DRI mass surveillance action

Posted on 29/07/2006 by Simon McGarr
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Digital Rights Ireland have sent letters to the Minister for Justice, the Minister for Communications and the Garda Commissioner looking for undertakings in relation to data retention. McGarr Solicitors represent DRI. I won’t be commenting on the case beyond this. … Continue reading →

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Libel, MCD, Oxegen and Boards.ie

Posted on 27/07/2006 by Simon McGarr
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see “How we feared for our lives at Oxegen . . . festival-goers relive their nightmare??? from the Irish Independent of 22nd July 2006 for more details. Continue reading →

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E-Voting: Would you like more of this?

Posted on 13/07/2006 by Simon McGarr
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Colm MacCárthaigh gives an overview of the timeline of events surrounding the evoting fiasco. Here’s an interesting snippit. We come in just as the Oireachtas has formed a committee to look into concerns about evoting. At the first meeting, on … Continue reading →

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Irish Government Lodges Objection to Data Retention Directive with ECJ

Posted on 07/07/2006 by Simon McGarr
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I’m sure that the DRI people will be all over this, but I just thought that people might be interested to know that an objection to the Data Retention Directive was lodged today by the Irish Government with the European … Continue reading →

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The Next Bebo

Posted on 15/05/2006 by Simon McGarr
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Gareth Stack, author of the wildly popular Why Do We Bebo? article which has skewed tuppenceworth’s statistics ever since it was published (top 5 search results- bebo, BEBO, Bebo + ie and Bebo skins) has posted a follow up on … Continue reading →

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Play.com follows Amazon.co.uk

Posted on 14/05/2006 by Simon McGarr
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I see today that Play.com is now saying “We are sorry, but we can only supply gadgets to UK addresses. You must choose a UK delivery address for this order. You may click ‘Add new address/edit address’ to create a … Continue reading →

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