Irish Council for Civil Liberties

I wonder how many cases, though, how common is that for a younger guy to wear those glasses, record himself inviting a girl out on a date or whatever, being refused and then putting it on social media? How common is that? Anyway, TJ from the Digital Rights Group goes on.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has said that the glasses are creepy, deeply problematic and intrusive and have no place in Irish society.

Do they have a point or are there legitimate positive uses for this technology as well?

No, I would agree with that assessment.

Ireland is more problematic, because we don't have that national identity card, and there are some issues, uh, around the safety of the, um, of the government ID cards that we have.

Our, our colleagues in the Irish Council for Civil Liberties would have real issues about the safety of that.

But it is definitely a way forward.

L- the, the EU is saying children under 13 should not be able to set up a social media account.

Exactly.

And I also going to say as something good this week that the Irish Council for Civil Liberties has had a big win in the past week.

They have basically secured a landmark precedent against big tech where the courts have ruled definitively that technology giants can no longer use blanket denials to avoid accountability.

And this is in cases where people are claiming that GDPR has been infringed upon.

It did not enforce it with sufficient consistency or fortitude.

Johnny Leeds enforced the Technology Accountability Unit at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.

He previously served as Chief Policy Officer at the browser Brave and Chief Innovation Officer at the Irish Times.

In ad tech circles, he is closely associated with the argument that real-time bidding creates an uncontrolled broadcast of personal data.

Thanks so much for coming on.

Thank you, Alan.

That was Dr. Johnny Ryan, Director of Enforce at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.

Dr. Ryan does not pull his punches.

Dr. Johnny Ryan is with us.

He's director of ENFORCE, that's the Technology Accountability Unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.

Uh, Dr. Ryan, good morning.

Thanks for taking our call today.

Yeah, great.

And just to say, uh, also with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Research Ireland generously funded this study.

Uh, and so I'd like to thank them, uh, for funding it and for their patience in me getting it over the line 'cause they were very good about giving extensions, 'cause it was quite a hard project to get over the line, Tony, as I'm sure you v- well know.

Journalists can be a f- a challenging group to-