Conor Ryan reports:
Gardaí, the Defence Forces, and Revenue Commissioners are accessing record levels of private landline, mobile phone, and internet records.
The latest available figures show authorities accessed more than 40 private communications each day in 2010 — compared with 31 per day a year earlier.
Read more on Irish Examiner. The report is replete with statistics from a government report and will be of interest to privacy advocates.