Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The court said that it does not feel this infringes in the same way so it included all user data, which includes what the Senator outlined, as not being as significant in terms of impeding. All of this is about whether retaining this type of data, Schedule 2 data or Internet data would create a greater impediment on someone’s privacy or right to privacy. However, the court ruled both in 2020 and more recently in April, and obviously the Supreme Court ruled the same way, that it is not as much of an infringement on somebody’s personal privacy rights.