Power gone to the head of Minister for Justice

Do tell and explain the more sinister lines that were said. Implying them does not make for good discussion.

If you have nothing to hide you've nothing to fear.

Except everyone has something to hide, or at least keep private. The end does not always justify the means.

Well, in legal parlance, everyone is only Suspected of a crime, until they are Convicted of one. They are innocent until proven guilty, at least in most countries anyway. It wouldn't do much good if the system could only share the information long after the criminal had already been caught and convicted.

Yikes even in the US, conservative justices have noped that one.

“We want to encourage people to come forwards, not to force anybody to have to give up their property or accommodation.”

I don't like her language, she doesn't want to force people, it implies if she wanted to she would and could, a dangerous woman with a god complex.

It's not even that. She is just massively out of her depth and has been promoted to a position she should never have found herself in.

The woman has no real experience in anything beyond being a staffer for her father, was originally elected purely on parish pump name recognition when he died, and like Leo himself is part of the "New FG" more concerned with spin and soundbites, and chasing Twitter likes to boost their personal profiles in the pursuit of bigger and better things on their career bucket list.

It's not so much that she has a god complex than she is just bouncing from one half-baked kneejerk overreaction to the next, as she overcompensates to hide her inadequacies. But in a country where the MSM rarely questions most of it, never mind challenge it, she continues to fail upwards.

I fully expect her to become leader of FG yet and possibly even a future Taoiseach. We now live in a society where identity politics, quotas, box-ticking, and social media consensus matters above all else. We think things are bad now. Just wait until those things come to pass.

Her appointment as Minister for Justice was just a box ticking exercise to show the Government were giving women more of the top jobs rather than any real ability to do the job.

Two people go for a job as minister of justice.

Person A has following credentials:

Studied economics, politics, and law at Dublin City University (DCU) for three before graduating in 2007.

After graduating worked for a subsidiary of Citibank.

Returned in 2010, to complete a Masters in Journalism and Media Communications at Griffith College. (private, third level higher education college)

Then was assistant to their TD father for two years.

Then stood in by election caused by father's death and won seat in 2013.

Won seat in next general election 2016 and given role of Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People.

A year later, 2017, was given role as Minister of State for European Affairs (and was part of Brexit team).

Was elected as Vice-President of the European People's Party (EPP) in Nov 2019.

Person B has following credentials:

Has a BCL Law degree from UCD.

Has a master's degree in law and an M.Phil. in criminology from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University.

Sidney college for anyone that doesn't know is one of the Cambridge colleges, ranked half way.

Has 4th highest ranking for Nobel prizes won by Cambridge alumni.

Has a barrister-at-law degree from the King's Inns.

In 2000 represented a taoiseach in defamation proceedings appearing with two future attorney generals.

Was made a senior counsel in 2008.

Represented many high-profile clients in defamation cases and was involved in two of Ireland's largest commercial court disputes.

Served as legal advisor to major political party for 5 years.

Was elected as Dublin city councilor.

Was elected to Dail in 2016 and made opposition Spokesperson for Justice and Equality, even drafting legislation that was passed by the Oireachtas and became an Act.

In 2020 was re-elected to Dail.

Leave out parties, leave out sexes and just look at CV.

Which person in 2020 was more suitable to be minister for justice?

SO how do you isolate the people whos privacy doesn't matter from those who do ?

Online activity ranges from child porn to fraudsters to large and small scale drug dealing money laundering on an industrial scale with revolute all the way down to phone snatches . technology a part of the modern world and thus a part of the criminal world too.

the process to access information on a simple on line fraud scam is incredibly complex in both time and and money with warrants needed to access even the victims information because the banks dont want to cooperate. It could take months to investigate and trace information on something like two kids threatening each other on snapchat or similar only to be told that those companies dont recognize a warrant o court order from Irish courts . Making that easier faster and less impossible isnt a bad think.

Again i dont think she is capable of doing the job and is doing as she is told by her staff and higher ups to garner populist support.

so at the end of the day , those crimes that could be prevented and prosecuted using the laws and procedures in question will go undetected and unpunished and the victims continue to be victimized.

total privacy comes with a price , you just have to be wiling to pay that price

I would say realistically its more like 99 percent of people who's information would never be accessed.

Why would you need facial recognition software to implement a community rating for busses? Bus passes can already be made to be uniquely identified passengers if necessary.

Some shops already have "community ratings" they plaster bad cheques and photos of bad people from their CCTV to keep out.

I don't think employers need to know your search history and the type of data brokering should be barred from hiring practices by law.

Health Insurance data broker access sounds like a whole thread in and of itself. Insurance companies need to have the banal ability to investigate potential fraud.

If a state entity for a necessary service sold citizen data to 3rd parties as a product or service I would revolt. That's separate from Freedom of Information requests.