wth are you talking about? ireland is the bridgehead of fucking facebooks tentacles.
The irish data protection officer is a goddamn joke.
Underfunded, understaffed, but also the only reason why Facebook's facial recognition database was rolled back in Europe. Well, we're told it was rolled back, which I don't believe for an instant. Point being, the DPC has done a fantastic job with the shoestring our government gives it. All of which is beside my point: I wasn't saying the Irish government's great and that Ireland's a safe-haven from spying; it's not. We have GCHQ sitting on all of our fibres, and we *do* host some of the world's biggest NSA assets: Facebook, Google, Amazon, etcetera. My point was that our *government* does not engage, as far as we know, in mass surveillance, and that receiving government funding in Ireland to study and deploy privacy projects would therefore be less worrisome than receiving the same funding from the UK or US, which presents the well-trodden paradox of being "funded by the adversary". On 04/03/15 10:35, stef wrote:
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:16:18AM +0000, Cathal (Phone) wrote:
+1. More than this, whatever your feelings on governments per se, not all governments are particularly bad when it comes to privacy, spying, etcetera.
There is plenty wrong with the Irish kleptocracy, but as far as we currently know domestic mass surveillance isn't in play over here.
wth are you talking about? ireland is the bridgehead of fucking facebooks tentacles. the irish data protection officer is a goddamn joke. the whole country has major parts of its gdp only because of their incredibly flexible spine that they use to adjust to the silicon valley doing their EU money and data laundering, besides the UK there's not much more complicit states than the irish when it comes to EU wide mass surveillance.
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