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Garda head asks mobile providers to track users web use

  • 09-11-2008 8:23pm
    #1
    nobodythere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭


    "The head of the Irish police force has requested that Irish cell phone providers (Vodafone, 02, Meteor, 3) retain detailed information on the web pages that people view over their handheld devices. This information would be held over for 'possible future criminal investigations', but would be gathered without a warrant, probable cause, or without the citizen being suspected of a crime. This request goes way beyond the European Union's data retention directive, which never included retention of web-based email. Representatives of Vodafone, O2 and 3 discussed the letter at a meeting with Mr Davis (6th November 2008) and questioned the legal basis under which they could retain this data. It is their understanding that the content of calls or e-mails, or details on webpages browsed, are excluded from the EU directive. As such, any retention or disclosure of that information would be a violation of existing EU data protection legislation."

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2008/1107/1225925540654_pf.html


Comments

  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Already discussed in this thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055415464


  • #3
    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    Mobile phone version of tor?


  • #4
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Domo230 wrote: »
    This is a disgrace but I really dont know what can be done to stop it.
    Careful. You'll send me into a full blown rant about how stupidly complacent people have become.

    The correct answer is Anything you can. Ring up talk radio hosts and say Hey Did You Hear About... and post up here on boards (good start) etc. etc.

    I beleive theres even some legal routes to be taken in the way of civil protest. Petition much?


  • #5
    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    unfortunately here ringing up a radio talkshow is a replacement for actually doing something about it

    you call up, complain to joe, he agrees with you and so does someone else on the radio. you hang up and the whole thing is swiftly forgotten about and you continue browsing the web with your mobile broadband and the local sergeant behind his desk watching the same pr0n you're watching.


  • #6
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Oh. Because over here Radio Personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Michael savage appear to carry actual weight. And not just because theyre both fat c*nts.


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  • #7
    Refresh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭Refresh


    that is awful


  • #8
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,814 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    If this does not sound like the Garda Commissioner is trying to get the ISP to do his dirty work illegal and continue turning Ireland into a police state I don't know what does...

    DETAILED INFORMATION on the web pages people view will be retained for possible future criminal investigations if telecommunications operators comply with a letter from the Garda Commissioner.

    Vodafone executives are believed to have questioned the legal basis under which it could retain this data.

    ...goes beyond the European Union's data retention directive, which the Government intends to implement as a statutory instrument...



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