ANDREW WILLIS
Irish minister for justice Dermott Ahern has
confirmed that Dublin is seeking to block a new European Commission
initiative that would allow the free transfer of personal data on EU
citizens to Israel.
[euobserver.com] The minister’s statement over the weekend, reported in Israeli daily
Haaretz on Monday (12 July), follows recent media reports that Ireland
is concerned the data could be misused after eight fake Irish passports
were allegedly used by Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in the
assassination of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh earlier this year.
As a result, Irish officials last week called for the
scrapping of commission plans to declare Israeli data protection
standards as being sufficient to allow the transfer of personal data. (more on euobserver.com)
