Data privacy campaigner concerned law permits Minister to get ‘mass surveillance’ orders after private court hearing
‘We are at our wits’ end. Our adult daughter still lives with us and her boyfriend has started to settle here too’
Data privacy campaigners have long argued the State has failed to adequately respond to the problems with the 2011 Act, despite being on specific notice of the issues since 2017 when a review by Mr Justice John Murray concluded many of the provisions of the 2011 Act did not comply with EU law. Section 3A provides the Minister may, once satisfied of a “serious and genuine, present or foreseeable threat to the security of the State”, apply to the High Court for an order requiring general and indiscriminate retention of mobile phone traffic and location data, and internet source data, for 12 months. Before making the application, the Minister must have assessed the threat and decided the application was necessary and proportionate.
Solicitor Simon McGarr, a data rights specialist, has suggested the Act may also risk the validity of criminal prosecutions that rely on data gathered under it.
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