Privacy security

Ireland: Public And Administrative Law Update: Big Brother Is Watching – But Is He Listening Too?

Two years on from the controversy surrounding the recording of telephone calls in Garda stations, the secret recording of calls in Ireland remains a legal minefield that requires careful navigation. Is secret recording legal? What about data protection? And how does all of this sit with our privacy rights? The answers to these questions might just surprise you. 

Billions of telephone calls are made worldwide each day. We pick up the phone without thinking and before we know it, we are deep in conversation about various things, much of which is likely to be our private business. Surely if the person you are speaking to was to record the conversation, without your knowledge, they would be acting illegally? Under Irish law, this might not be the case.