DavidRoyman

The EU Parliament is working on a law to introduce mass surveillance, pushed by the European People's Party (of which Fine Gael are members).

It's filed under the guise of detecting child abuse, but effectively it will result in scanning every text message or image.

Back in March, this proposal was rejected, but in the last few days the European People's Party (of which Fine Gael are members) is trying to bypass that vote by attaching its key points to an older legislation.

I tried to get in touch with them, but - ironically, perhaps - the only response was an AI-written statement from Maria Walsh.

If you believe mass surveillance isn't for you, then you should probably send a message as

Remember when last year Meta managed to insert their lobbyst as DPC?

Today, MHC announced that the previous commissioner Helen Dixon joined their team. MHC is the Irish law firm for Meta.

Absolutely no conflict of interest. :)

https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/former-data-protection-commissioner-helen-dixon-joins-mason-hayes-curran

Chat Control is a measure for mass surveillance of private communications, disguised under the good old excuse of "protecting the children".

Politicians aren't worried at all about this violation of everyone's privacy - they've already included an exemption for themselves, the sneaky ba****s.

At the moment, Ireland is still one of the EU states which are supporting it. If you care about privacy at all, it might be a good time to write our MEPs.

This website makes the process of writing them quite easy: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

If you need any selling point, just know that FG is in favour of this, so it can't be any good.

Just trying to wrap my head around it.

Seems there will be 2 separate bus lanes which then disappear into a 2 way street with cars mixed in for good measure.

Also no idea where those cars coming from the railstation are supposed to go?

Anyone with a street layout?

Just trying to wrap my head around it.

Seems there will be 2 separate bus lanes which then disappear into a 2 way street with cars mixed in for good measure.

Also no idea where those cars coming from the railstation are supposed to go?

Anyone with a street layout?

https://www.thejournal.ie/river-lee-cork-city-3338964-Apr2017/

The Save Cork City campaign is opposed to plans by Office of Public Works to build flood defences along the River Lee downstream of Inniscarra dam and through Cork city.

Everytime there's a flood (twice a year, more or less) I am reminded that there's plenty of other Cork citizens that are quite in favour of getting flooded.