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Data decisions create dark day for Irish democracy (irishtimes.com)
34 points by austinallegro on June 29, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



"A 12-month blanket communications data retention on the Irish population and, ... allowing the Irish Data Protection Commission to gag public discussion of what it determines to be “confidential” elements of any complaints it is considering."


So rolling 12 months of everyone's private communication.

In the country next door (UK) it's 1 month of everyone's private communication since Theresa May passed the 'snooper's charter' back in 2016.

Do these countries not have laws against opening other people's postal mail and wiretapping?


But a great day for fans of alliteration.


May the Odds be Ever in your Favor!


So is Ireland both a tax haven and a data haven now?




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