Privacy

Prison authorities cited the GDPR when refusing to tell a solicitor why his client had been placed in a special observation cell, The Irish Times reports. The decision to place the prisoner in the padded cell just before Christmas is currently subject to a judicial review before the High Court.

The State is to ask the Supreme Court to hear its appeal against a High Court ruling that sections of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 are inconsistent with EU law. Brian Murray SC, for the State, told Mr Justice Tony O'Connor it intends to apply to the top court to hear "a leapfrog a

The PSNI will publish a formal public policy on its retention of biometric data after settling a case brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC). The NIHRC issued judicial review proceedings against the PSNI in December 2017 on behalf of an individual who wanted them to erase fi