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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4"Obviously indymedia ireland is suitable for republishing of Chinese, Myanmarese, Nigerian or Iranian bloggers gripes"
No, its not. But it is suitable for original articles.
It should have read "obviously indymedia ireland is not suitable for...."
Still not being an editor that type of thing gets past my intial draft and right into posterity. Anyway I'm not sure what Amnesty really wants us to do-
are we supposed to make contact with political dissidents in China, Myanmar and Iran and inquire as to their difficulties with local editors paying attention to the excised passages, promising to write original news or opinion based pieces on said material in the hope the HTML will get moved around, someone else's name put on it & it become a feature?
If you ask me Amnesty International are asking us to make problems for these people.
Traffic Data Retention : Irish Style.
Sources: Karen Lillington: The Irish Times 2003.
and Irish Times 29/07/06 : front page> Digital Rights Ireland
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2006/0729/115407....html
In 2003 , Karen Lillinton reported the TDR, the concept:" Phone , mobile and internet service
providers compile and retain records of all traffic data on their systems: essentially who called whom and when, in the case of mobile phones, where the caller was and in the case of web browsing , a list of sites visited, to whom emails were sent and from whom they were received".
"The data is to be retained for a set minimum time period (in Ireland ,three years), the longest
data retention period in any EU state. A recent vote on Data retention within the Eu was
opposed by Ireland and Hungary, the period of retention proposed, was a two and a half
year period.
The responsibility for data retention legislation is situated in the Dept of Justice. intensive
lobbying against the EU retention period is ongoing.
The three year period was instigated under "a cabinet approved confidential direction, by the
then minister for Enterprise: Mary O Rourke: "secret data retention regime for almost a year after
cabinet confidentially instructed telecommunications operators to store traffic info on every phone, fax and mobile for a three year period"
This was retained from 2003-2005, when the Data commissioner , Joe Meade treatened Mr Mc Dowell with a high court action, because there was no legislative structure governing the
confidential directive, issued by Mary O Rourke.
The legislation has since been introduced, making Ireland a country with the longest
period of TDR retention.
Digital Rights Ireland have served papers on the Dept of Justice asking that the
legislation be abandoned(29/07/06) They have given Michael Mc Dowell seven working
days to comply with the papers or they will pursue a case against the dept of Justice.
The positioning of the Irish data retention issue within the wider EU context and
the challenges against the issue of an illegal perion under confidential diretion without
legislations are ongoing.
The backround to the story and the Irish context are covered by Karen Lillington
since feb 2003, in the Business pages of the Irish Times.
The Minister for Justice has not ,as yet responded to DRI, nor has the issue
of such a long period of TDR been answered in the Dail.
http://colr.ucc.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...id=44