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(What is the European Parliament up to?)
I don’t think it is a total defeat, but if more legislation is brought about, we could be in deep water.
This morning the decision was made by the European Parliament on Data Retention.
The directive was adopted by 378 votes in favour, 197 against and 30 abstentions.
The full […]

I am once again reading Bruce Schneier’s book “Secrets And Lies”, mainly due to the whole data retention/data privacy debate that has been gopping on in Ireland, mainly involving Michael McDowell and now on the scene, Digital Rights Ireland.
Minister McDowell, the current Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, is bringing about a new data […]

[Update: Avril Doyle will be arriving in Strasbourg this evening. Please make sure contact is made with her by late this evening.]
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I have written the following letter/e-mail to my MEPs on the subject of imminent vote being taken on Data Retention TOMORROW.
People have to do it TODAY.
Read more here, here, here, here (NB: PDF), here, […]

I was at the opening of Novara.ie’s new offices on North Earl Street tonight. The opening guest was Tom Kitt, Minister for eGovernment.
One thing that struck me was he mentioned e-Domocracy. This seemed to be one of his “ideas”, which encompassed discussing government policies with the public. He did not go into the actual details […]

I attended the DigitalRights Ireland launch this morning in Conference Room, Pearse St. Library. The turnout was very respectable, with a mixture of interested parties, journalists from print, radio.
Digital Rights is made up of Bernie Goldbach, Antoin O’ Lachtain, Damien Mulley, Colm MacCarthaigh, TJ McIntyre, and many many more.
The reasoning behind the launch of a […]

Dick Doyle from IRMA seemed to get his topics mixed up this afternoon when speaking with LunchTime on Newstalk106 and T.J. MacInTyre of Digital Rights Ireland.
He seemed to be talking about Data Retention, when the argument was about the filesharing cases, and how they found out the identities of the owners of the machines.
He seemed […]

Reading through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment RSS feed this morning, I came across this interesting little piece of information.

Palm Opens European Smartphone R&D Centre in Dublin: “Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin TD today (Friday 28th October 2005) announced thatPalm, a leader in mobile computing and a leading provider […]

Well, it was only some time before the El Pais newspaper website became 100% free read. As Belén has found out, El Pais is now free!
El Mundo was free for the past number of years, and El Pais was PPV. El Pais was obviously loosing alot of web readers to El Mundo.
I don’t have any […]