Tinha sido prometido mas agora a DRI avançou mesmo: Digital Rights Ireland brings legal action over mass surveillance: Irish civil rights group Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has started a High Court action against the Irish Government challenging new European and Irish laws requiring mass surveillance. DRI Chairman TJ McIntyre said:
These laws require telephone companies and internet service providers to spy on all customers, logging their movements, their telephone calls, their emails, and their internet access, and to store that information for up to three years. This information can then be accessed without any court order or other adequate safeguard. We believe that this is a breach of fundamental rights. We have written to the Government raising our concerns but, as they have failed to take any action, we are now forced to start legal proceedings.
Accordingly, we have now launched a legal challenge to the Irish government?s power to pass these laws. We say that it is contrary to the Irish Constitution as well as Irish and European Data Protection laws. [...]
These mass surveillance laws are a direct, deliberate attack on our right to have a private life, without undue interference by the government. That right is underpinned in the laws of European countries and is also explicitly stated in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Article specifies that public authorities may only interfere with this right in narrowly defined circumstances.
[Não vale a pena procurar, não consta nenhuma organização portuguesa a apoiar esta iniciativa...]
