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Digital Rights Ireland

@dri@mastodon.ie

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Digital Rights Ireland is dedicated to defending civil and legal rights in a digital age. We are a small organisation with no staff or office. All our funds go directly towards our work, which primarily focuses on mounting legal challenges, educating legislators, and public campaigning. This account is not staffed and is used for news alert broadcasts.

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5 Posts

Joined June 28, 2023

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https://www.digitalrights.ie/

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https://www.digitalrights.ie/support/

Digital Rights Ireland @dri@mastodon.ie

· 8mo ago

DRI is working on a web page to list and signpost notable people, organisations and departments that have abandoned X due to #Grok and #CSAM distribution.

Please share with us the X handles/names of departed accounts and where those people/orgs can now be found for our signposting page.

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Digital Rights Ireland @dri@mastodon.ie

· 39mo ago

DRI is deeply alarmed by Friday's secret High Court order requiring mobile phone companies operating in Ireland to engage in mass surveillance. We demand answers to the following 20 questions from the Minister for Justice:

https://www.digitalrights.ie/20-questions-mass-surveillance/

Twenty questions for Minister for Justice as mass surveillance of Ireland’s entire population is secretly approved by the High Court - Digital Rights Ireland

Digital Rights Ireland

Twenty questions for Minister for Justice as mass surveillance of Ireland’s entire population is secretly approved by the High Court - Digital Rights Ireland

The identity of every person you phone, text, and/or email, the date and time of when you do so, and the location of where you are when you do so, is now being retained by mobile phone companies for Garda access. It follows the Department of Justice obtaining a High Court order requiring the companies […]

Digital Rights Ireland @dri@mastodon.ie

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@phelan@mastodon.ie Yes that is the plan. Unfortunately our form handler decided to spectacularly combust, and it has had impact across the website. We are in the process of dealing with that.

Digital Rights Ireland @dri@mastodon.ie

· 39mo ago

"The problem is the amount of data left behind us is far greater than ever. It's very misleading for gardaí to say they need this extra data." @tjmcintyre@mastodon.social

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41171779.html

Irish Examiner

Phone and internet companies ordered to retain user data

Part of measures to protect the security of the State

Digital Rights Ireland @dri@mastodon.ie

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@jik@federate.social unfortunately we have run into a technical problem. We use a form to input the information and the form handler we use has decided to dramatically combust. This impacts quite a few dependencies across our site but we are working on it.