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‘Terror risk’ for electronic passport - Sunday Times - Times Online
Antoin has been speaking with Mark Tighe of the Sunday Times regarding the recently introduced electronic passports and the security risks associated with not having adequate electronic shielding, tinfoil hat as it were, protecting the passport from being skimmed. Without proper protection, these passports maybe […]

From today’s Sunday Business Post:
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“The communications regulator, Comreg, is examining the use of wholesale information by telecoms providers in their use of wholesale information by telecoms providers in their attempts to win back customers from rival operators.
Earlier this month The Sunday Business Post reported that some disconnected Smart customers had been approached by Eircom salespeople, […]

Further to Digital Rights Ireland decision on the SWIFT transfer private data being given to the US authorities, The Register has the story that
Swiss banks broke privacy laws over SWIFT transfers: data chief | The Register
Hanspeter Thür, the Federal Data Protection Commissioner of Switzerland, said the banks broke data protection laws when they failed […]

As noticed in today’s Irish Times (registration required).
Government launches new biometric passports
” A passport with an integrated computer chip holding a copy of the holder’s photo and other passport information was unveiled today by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The new biometric passport is the same as a normal passport, with the exception of the computer […]

With my upcoming trip to Guatemala and Belize fast approaching, the thoughts of being an American citizen and thus requiring a RFID “enabled” (or should that be disabled) passport would really scare me.
The idea of “chip enabled” passports is not a bad idea, per se. But the idea of your *essentially private* data being readable, […]

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday morning 2nd August) TJ McIntyre, the Chairman of Digital Rights Ireland will be involved in a radio discussion, on The Today Show on RTE Radio 1 with Noel Dempsey, Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, and Karlin Lillington, Irish Times journalist on the topic of Data Retention.
The radio show will be […]

Leading on from the release of the Digital Rights press release last Friday, and the mainstream interest in this story (from Irish Times, Irish Independent, and the Irish Examiner), I have a challenge for everybody who reads this blog.
My challenge (with poetic license from Gavin Joyce - thanks Gavin!):
Tell 5 people about this government […]

Yesterday Digital Rights Ireland released a press release explaining the landmark case, we preparing to challenge the constitutionality of a law that obliges telecommunication companies to retain the details of all electronic traffic.
We have received excellent press coverage so far, with Examiner, Irish Times, and Irish Independent covering this story.
We would now like to see […]