Europe’s top court rules that IAB Europe is responsible under the GDPR for the “TCF” consent spam popups that appear on almost every website.
ICCL and DRI present to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice on Draft General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2023
13 February 2024 ICCL Senior Policy Officer Olga Cronin, along with our colleagues at Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice on the Draft General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2023. …
ICCL recommendations in European Parliament text on the Health Data Space
29 November 2023Following months of negotiations, the lead committees in the European Parliament voted on a compromise text of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) yesterday. This draft text will next be voted on by the entire European Parliament in …
ICCL and DRI welcome Justice Committee’s concerns about proposed EU law which could lead to mass surveillance of private messages and emails
The proposed EU law could mandate the monitoring of virtually all public and private digital communications
Problems with the secondary use of health data in the European Health Data Space
The proposed European Health Data Space has two problems related to the secondary use of health data. It is not specific about the legal basis and it allows for a broad range of health data uses that carry risks to …
ICCL highlights concerns over proposed Garda use of Facial Recognition Technology
25 November 2022 On 23 November 2022 ICCL signed a joint letter to Minister for Jusitce, Helen McEntee TD, outlining our concerns over the government’s ongoing plans to legislate for and deploy policing facial recognition technologies (FRT).
Two additional Data Protection Commissioners are welcome. But an independent review and other reforms are needed.
ICCL welcomes the Government’s decision to appoint two additional Data Protection Commissioners. We have repeatedly called for this measure and believe it may strengthen the Data Protection Commission (DPC); but this decision must be supported by other key reforms including an independent review.
Why the data retention bill is so problematic
06 July 2022 ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland have written to all members of the Oireachtas to outline our serious concerns regarding the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) bill 2022. These are our main concerns: The bill will permit rolling …
ICCL says vaccine passes not human rights compliant; calls for system to be scrapped
19 January 2022 The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has called on government to commit to ending the use of vaccine passports when it announces the phasing out of restrictions this week. ICCL has also written to NPHET saying …
ICCL writes to Minister for Health regarding the Covid vaccination/recovery certificate system
22 October 2021 ICCL has written to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly reiterating our firm opposition to the idea of a domesticvaccine passport system. We have been opposed to the system since March and our position remains the same: the …