Legal challenges likely to new laws that will allow the retention of mobile phone data on security grounds
A legal challenge seems likely to a controversial law which allows the retention of mobile phone metadata and internet source data on State security grounds. The orders were obtained on Monday under the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022. The Act was went through the Oireachtas last summer…
Local TD calls for balanced used of mobile data during Garda investigations
Sligo/Leitrim TD and Sinn Fein spokesman on Justice Martin Kenny says people have a right to privacy but they also have a right to be protected from dangerous offenders. He was speaking in the aftermath of yesterday’s ruling by European Court of Justice on access to mobile phone data.…