Ireland as the Internet Privacy Advocate for the EU

This report discusses the importance of internet privacy and how Ireland is the advocate of internet privacy for the EU. It outlines how Irish laws are superseding the laws of the EU and how they are more effective, efficient, and advanced.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Importance of Internet Privacy...............................................................................................2
Ireland as Internet Privacy Advocate for EU.........................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The Internet connection can be defined as the globalised system of various
interconnected networks of computers, which utilize the basic protocol suite i.e. TCP and IP
(Hong and Thong 2013). This is utilized for linking various devices in the entire world. This
Internet is also known as the network of networks, which eventually comprises of business,
public, government network, private and many more. These are usually linked with the help
of a broader array of technologies of wireless, optical and electronic networking
(Zhelyazkova 2014). Internet is responsible for dealing with various types of data and thus
the privacy and security is extremely important.
The following report outlines a brief description on the Internet privacy for the
European Union or EU. It helps to understand that how Ireland is the advocate of the Internet
privacy of EU. The report will be demonstrating the importance of Internet privacy and how
Ireland or Irish laws are superseding the laws of EU or vice versa. The Irish laws are more
effective than the European Union laws as they are more effective, more efficient as well as
advanced.
Discussion
Importance of Internet Privacy
Security or privacy of the Internet connection helps to keep the data private or secured
(Auel and Raunio 2014). It is the sub category of privacy of data. The issues of data privacy
solely give rise to the information sources like privacy breaches, criminal justice
investigations as well as proceedings, all types of financial transactions or institutions and
many more (Myers 2014). These are the major reasons for the importance and obligation of
Internet privacy. It is the mutual duty or responsibility for protecting the data with collective

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awareness. Another important reason is that the hackers or the cybercriminals get access of
the personal data easily and promptly and thus, the privacy of Internet should be kept (Bernal
2014). The online data breaches have become a major issue in today’s world and the most
usual type of data to be breached are mobile phone numbers, working IP addresses, numbers
of credit cards and debit cards, email addresses and many others. This type of breaches can
affect any user, who is utilizing the service of Internet connection (Sicari et al. 2015).
Another vulnerable type of Internet privacy breaching is faking court orders. This type of
vulnerability leads to the law outsourcing in any country.
For any country or nation, the protection of their laws and regulations is extremely
important as it helps to protect the Internet (Hong and Thong 2013). It is the right or the
mandate of the individuals or citizens residing at the country or nation and concerning about
the storage, provision and repurposing of information to the third party. It displays the
information for pertaining through the Internet. The government of any country utilizes the
information they collect from the social media for the purpose of tracking and catching the
criminals (Myers 2014). However, at the same time, they invade the privacy as people can
relate to one another.
Ireland as Internet Privacy Advocate for EU
European Union Law or EU law is the specific system for rules and regulations that
operated with the member states of EU (Zimmer 2014). They have various social, political
and economic policies and procedures for their member states. As per the Court of Justice,
European Union is representing as the new legal order international laws. According to the
European Union, the Internet privacy or Internet protection rules work under several
conditions (Cecere, Le Guel and Soulié 2015). The first and the foremost condition in this
case is protection of data with consent. This type of protection could easily lead to the various
kinds of laws.

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Ireland is acting as the advocate of Internet privacy for the European Union (Hedley
2017). The Law of Ireland eventually comprises of the statute, common laws and the
constitutional laws. The highest law within the Ireland is known as the Constitution of
Ireland, from where every law is derived of authority. Ireland has the system of common law
or legal with the written constitution, providing a democracy on the basis of parliamentary
system (Hong and Thong 2013). The Irish laws are somewhat different from the rest of the
laws of European Union.
The data protection laws in Ireland have been extremely effective for understanding
the digital rights of an individual. The legal challenges, education of legislators and finally
public campaigning are responsible for the proper execution of rules and laws (Myers 2014).
These specific laws try to stop the act of data breaching over the Internet by incorporation of
various laws and regulations.
The Irish laws are absolutely different from the European Union laws of Internet
privacy. The main differences between them are as follows:
i) Collection as well as Processing of Data: The difference between Irish laws and
European Union laws is that in the EU laws, the data processing and collection is done with
mutual consent (Auel and Raunio 2014). This helps to reduce the conflicts between the
authorized user and the person who owns the data. The person, who is collecting and
processing the data, would eventually inform the person from where he is taking the data.
This is different in Irish laws. According to the Irish laws, there is no such mutual consent.
The person, should not collect or process anybody else’s data even with consent
(Zhelyazkova 2014). Thus, Irish law is superseding the EU laws.
ii) Processing of Personal Data: The second important difference between the Irish
laws and European Union laws is for the processing of personal data. As per the European

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Union law, the personal data should be collected only for the properly defined legitimate
purpose and should not be utilized for any other purposes (Bernal 2014). If the user uses this
data, for any other purpose, it is considered as illegal and violations of such laws should be
checked and punished. The user should have the ability to properly correct, block or even
remove the inaccurate data or information and thus the problems of data protection would be
reduced (Zimmer 2014). Moreover, the European Union Laws also provide protection for the
accidental or unethical destruction, alteration or loss of data. Irish laws, on the other hand, are
stopping the entire entry of the unauthorized data to the Internet connectivity of the user.
iii) Privacy to the Electronic Communications: The third important difference
between the Irish laws and European Union laws is in the protection of all types of electronic
communications (Sicari et al. 2015). As per the European Union laws, there are certain rules
on the personal data protection as well as privacy within the electronic communications like
Internet connection, access to Internet, mobile phone communication or fixed phone
communications. The loss or the theft of the confidential or sensitive data should be
eventually and effectively informed to the national authority for avoiding any serious issue
(Hedley 2017). Furthermore, the data should be erased or made anonymous for tracking the
traffic or location of data. Regarding spam messages, the user should be sent a consent
message for verifying whether it is okay or not. Ireland on the other hand, is more concerned
about the quality of the data and stops all types of fake data entry to the Internet connection
of the user (Hong and Thong 2013). This helps to protect the privacy as well as security of
the Internet of the authorized users from any type of unauthorized attacks.
Thus, it is absolutely clear; that the Irish laws are much more advanced from the
existing European Union laws. The Internet is more secured and protected with the help of
the Irish laws and thus, there is a high chance that the Irish laws would be superseding the
European Union laws effectively and the privacy of the Internet would be kept properly.

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Conclusion
Therefore, from the above discussion, it can be concluded that Internet connectivity is
the specific method of connection of any computer to all other computer systems with the
help of dedicated servers and routers. This type of connection is possible irrespective of the
time and place. When two typical systems are linked on the Internet, they have the capability
to send as well as receive each and every type of information lie graphics, video, voice, text
or even computer programs. The most significant advantages of this Internet connection is
that it provides higher speed, fiber optical cables, by which the data is being sent or received
by the users. There is no restriction in the data amount and thus this particular technology is
well accepted by all users. Data security and privacy are highly required in the Internet
connection. The laws and regulations of the EU are extremely tough and difficult for the
criminals. These laws are superseded by the Irish laws and Ireland is acting as the advocate of
EU. The above report has outlined a brief description on the statement of Ireland as the
advocate of internet privacy for the European Union. Relevant details are provided in the
report. This report has stated the reasons why Irish laws are more effective than European
Union laws.

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