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Digital Rights Ireland Founded 2005 Aims to protect traditional rights online as well as offline TJ McIntyre Chairman, Digital Rights Ireland Associate Dean, UCD School of Law Practising solicitor specialising in IT law Fergal Crehan Practising barrister with special expertise in data protection, online defamation and social media
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Ryanair v. Johnston
The [application] it appears to me forms part of a
war of attrition that the captains are to be dissuaded by legal battle.... I do not accept [the] evidence that the investigation intended was bona fide. It is a feigned exercise and designed to divide those in IALPA from loyalty towards each other.
Whistleblowers
S.13 Post Office (Amendment) Act 1951 Deals with particularly invasive messages phone call, voicemail, text These are messages TO an individual not ABOUT an individual Expansion would
Criminalise every web page, online newspaper story, etc. which was intended to cause annoyance Create a remarkably subjective crime Break the principle of parity between online/offline speech Add to huge workload of Garda Computer Crime Unit
Comparable English law (s.127 Communications Act 2003) has been extensively misused
of Art.10 ECHR:
Freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic societyit is applicable not only to information or ideas that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also as to those that offend, shock or disturb
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