Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion

Mr. Dan Kelleher:

The purpose of this data, as I understand it, is if law enforcement comes across unlawful online content, it can seek the IP source data that linked to it and follow the breadcrumbs to see what IP address accessed it so it can pursue its investigation of someone who accessed unlawful content and potentially committed a criminal offence. It can work backwards from the unlawful content to see who accessed it. I hope that is clear but perhaps not. I know it is difficult. It is difficult for me too.

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