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DRI is deeply alarmed by Friday's secret High Court order requiring mobile phone companies operating in Ireland to engage in mass surveillance. We demand answers to the following 20 questions from the Minister for Justice:
digitalrights.ie/20-question…
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How can we make government in Ireland more accountable, transparent and inclusive? Submit your proposals here. ops.gov.ie/open-government-i…
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Also, this report’s clarity about the business plan (Get super valuable Irish DNA, sell it) once again raises the question of what the @DPC thought it was doing when @DRIalerts wrote to it to raise concerns about this use of biometric DNA data by a private body.
"The Irish Digital Rights Ireland is going to court against Meta and the Irish privacy authority. According to them, the latter has done too little after data from hundreds of millions of Facebook users leaked out in 2021."
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Bravo @DRIalerts.
Digital Rights Ireland suing the Irish Data Protection Commission, and Meta.
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DRI is taking the #DPC to court over it's decision impacting over 530M #Facebook users. #dataleak #meta
Press release: digitalrights.ie/dri-takes-d…
Apologies to anyone who tried to register yesterday. Ticket sales are now working correctly for this event in support of DRI and @TENI_Tweets and we appreciate your support. tickettailor.com/events/digi…
Everyone at DRI extends our condolences to the friends and family of our colleague Dr Vicky Conway, who's advocacy and passion will be missed by all who knew or just admired her independent.ie/news/a-wonder…
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And also this week, @ICCLtweet and @DRIalerts have written to all TDs, Senators outlining concerns regarding the data retention bill currently being rammed through the Oireachtas: 1. The bill will permit rolling one-year renewable data retention: in effect, indefinite retention;
If you're available in Dublin around Ormond Quay tomorrow at 3, we'd love to include a clip of you in a video to publicise the April 2021 Facebook data breach. If you can confirm your data was leaked at haveibeenpwned.com/ please DM us to take part!
Humboldt University has been the ideal home for two days of thoughtful, engaging workshops and meetings with over 30 EU #digitalrights organisations gathered for @edri General Assembly. It's been so valuable. – at Berlin, Germany
It's been a great kickoff morning for @edri General Assembly, and a great example of community building and group workshopping around #digitalrights advocacy. – at Berlin, Germany
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/ @DPCIreland is moving forward on the @DRIalerts - organized mass action.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
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It is time to look at this whole project again, and redesign government IT systems with data protection and privacy for the citizen at the forefront, not as an afterthought.
This is an important win for @DPCIreland and #no2psc campaigners, and a comprehensive loss for @welfare_ie, which has been forced to abandon its long and expensive challenge to the DPC's findings. irishtimes.com/business/gove…
This is an important win for @DPCIreland and #no2psc campaigners, and a comprehensive loss for @welfare_ie, which has been forced to abandon its long and expensive challenge to the DPC's findings. irishtimes.com/business/gove…
This ruling is in no small part the result of the hard work of the @drialerts #no2psc campaign with the help of @iccltweets over the last few years. We really appreciate all the support for this.
We continue to challenge the efforts to turn the PSC into a national ID card by stealth. You can support us by making a donation at digitalrights.ie/support/