Ireland has become a global hub for personal information with internet firms headquartered in Dublin collectively holding information on billions of users. But has Ireland been a responsible regulator of the way in which these firms use that data? In this chapter I examine the approach taken by...

Irish law on computer crime is an afterthought. The principal offenses in this area are contained in the Criminal Damage Act 1991 and the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act 2001: in both cases, the offenses have been tacked on to an Act whose primary focus is elsewhere, and in both...

This paper argues that the automatic and opaque nature of internet filtering, together with the fact that it is generally implemented by intermediaries, raises new problems for the law and in particular may tend to undermine aspects of freedom of expression. The paper starts by challenging the...

This document describes the management of the Calibration Program of the Instrumentation and Controls Division`s Technical Support Department (ISD). The implementation of the program is the responsibility of ISD; however, the decision as to whether or not equipment is calibrated is the...