WTF?! this new legislation is just stupid, see this Irish Times article. I wonder how this will be implemented, will all people that are Irish be monitored? will you be monitored if you are not Irish but live in Ireland? Will all accounts hosted in Ireland be monitored? Will it be monitored at the SMTP level? What about companies like google who have data centres in Ireland hosting accounts for people across Europe? will these accounts and systems be monitored?

This whole business of keeping this type of information and monitoring emails is abit worrying. One should ask the question, WTF?! is the Minister for Justice in Ireland (Dermot Ahern) doing or thinking.

This is all in the wake of the Libel and blasphemy bill that was passed recently.