Digital Rights Ireland

Ireland’s implementation of the digital wallet pilot raises significant legal, privacy, security, governance and transparency concerns, particularly given the State’s reported trialling of the wallet to enforce social media age verification, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) a

A new analysis has set out what powers exist in Ireland to investigate illegal online content such as the sexually-explicit images generated by Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) have put together the 16-page document, which exa

Irish government plans to roll out a new online age verification system "veers into the realm of authoritarianism", privacy experts have said. Patrick O’Donovan, the minister for culture, communications and sport, is expected to seek approval for a new "digital wallet" scheme from his governme

A civil liberties group has announced plans to submit a legal complaint over the Public Services Card (PSC) on behalf of more than 1,000 people. Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) said its new #no2psc campaign, launched yesterday, represented the first "mass action" legal campaign in Ireland.