{"id":299,"date":"2006-08-02T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T10:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/02\/why-have-data-retention\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T10:32:30","slug":"why-have-data-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/08\/02\/why-have-data-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Have Data Retention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, Karlin Lillington of the Irish Times linked to details of a <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0103966\/stories\/2003\/03\/17\/secretIrishDepartmentOfJusticeResponsesToEuOnDataRetentionPlans.html\">secret Council of Ministers questionnaire<\/a>. This was drawn up in advance of any data retention legislation being in place, in November 2002. <\/p>\n<p>It is interesting in its entirety, but I&#8217;d particularly draw people&#8217;s attention to question 5 and the Irish Government&#8217;s answer. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Questionnaire 5:    <strong>Have you received any reports from your law enforcement authorities that have indicated an obstruction of their work due to the non-existence of appropriate legal instruments concerning traffic data retention?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why, exactly, was it needed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 its entirety, but I&#8217;d particularly draw people&#8217;s attention to question 5 and the Irish Government&#8217;s answer. Questionnaire 5: Have you received any reports from your law enforcement authorities that have indicated an obstruction of their work due to the non-existence of appropriate legal instruments concerning traffic data retention? No. So why, exactly, was it needed?","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[240,45,30,256],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-rights","category-general","tag-data-retention","tag-digital-rights-ireland","tag-irish-times","tag-karlin-lillington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}