Government proposals to introduce surveillance of all internet users are unacceptable. The proposed law will require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to log details of every email, every instant message or chat message, and every time users log on or log off, and to store that information for up to 18 months. This information will then [...]

Like the good citizen you are, you submit to fingerprinting at airports because fingerprints are unique to you and they prove who you are and you are not, of course, a terrorist.
Er… It’s not quite that simple. Or maybe it is horrifyingly simple.
Mythbusters beat Fingerprint Security System

It didn’t take long, did it?
After years of warnings by journalists, particularly Karlin Lillington in The Irish Times and on her weblog, there is finally an (excellent) editorial in today’s Irish Times detailing the repressive data retention laws slipped past an almost empty Dáil some time ago. The Irish Times is unfortunately behind a paywall, [...]

“TOM McGURK hosted an interesting programme this morning on Irish national radio and one of his segments included discussion about the Irish government’s data retention scheme. Simply put, the government is trying to expand its reach into your mobile phone, email records and web browsing history. “
If you think that this subject is too complex [...]

When… oh when… will they learn? What is it about politicians and technology? Even when experts line up to warn them about the pitfalls of biometrics or electronic voting machines, will they listen? In Ireland Minister Cullen has wasted close on €60 million so far on an electronic voting machines that the [...]

The CIA is monitoring personal bank data of Irish citizens, according to the Irish Times. As Digital Rights Ireland points out, there is no legal basis for this information to be given to the US, no judicial authorisation, and no control over what use is made of the information. It’s not just [...]

As we feared, it’s happening. See this post from Howl @ the Moon to see why you should be scared. It isn’t as if this wasn’t forecast.
Please remember lads that these biometric passport thingies are digital, and anything digital can be hacked (I’ve linked a definition for yez if you’re confused, just in case). [...]

“The video of the talk by Suw Charman in Trinity College in cooperation with the TCD Legal Workshop is now available.”
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