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Aerostats, Biometrics, Chips, and Drones: UK Gathers Surveillance Industry to Solve Brexit Border Question

Image: Eric Jones The UK government last week hosted hundreds of surveillance companies as it continues to try and identify “technology-based solutions” able to reconcile the need for controls at the Irish border with the need to avoid them. The annual showcase conference of 'Security and Policing'

News

21st August 2019

Identity schemes and data protection: lessons from Ireland's Public Services Card

8th November 2018

The Letters

8th November 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Privacy International files complaints against seven companies for wide-scale and systematic infringements of data protection law

2nd February 2018

Will Ireland Be Britain’s Sister Surveillance State?

5th May 2016

The Human Rights Council Has Another Chance To Take A Strong Stance To Protect The Right To Privacy. Will It Take It?

27th February 2014

€5,000 to compromise Ireland's mobile phone infrastructure

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Study finds gaps in GAEN contact tracing apps privacy protection

A study describes the data transmitted to backend servers by the Google/Apple based contact tracing (GAEN) apps in use in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Denmark and finds that the health authority client apps are generally well-behaved from a privacy point of view, although the Irish

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The Right to Privacy in Ireland

This stakeholder report is a submission by Privacy International (PI) and Digital Rights Ireland Ltd. (DRI). PI is a human rights organisation that works to advance and promote the right to privacy and ght surveillance around the world. DRI is an Irish group dedicated to defending civil, legal and human rights in a digital age. PI and DRI wish to bring concerns about the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in Ireland before the Human Rights Council for consideration in Ireland’s upcoming review.