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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by rand49an on Monday June 14, 2021 @12:12PM (#27504372)
While I'm sure UK police are after the same powers (or already have them!) Ireland isn't a part of the UK.
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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by BitwiseFool on Monday June 14, 2021 @12:24PM (#27504565)
My apologies, for some reason my mind went to 'Northern Ireland' as I've come to expect this sort of thing from the UK.
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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by HeckFeck on Monday June 14, 2021 @12:31PM (#27504656)
Easily done. The ROI aren't as different from the the UK as they like to think.
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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by rusk on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:46PM (#27507355)
England is a very different kind of place to most places I think you’ll find!
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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by bitdivision on Monday June 14, 2021 @01:01PM (#27505068)
The UK does indeed already have similar powers under RIPA [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Po...

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