Irish Examiner view: Criminals must not hold all the aces in data protection

Specific rules will have to be introduced for nations to have an effective defence for intercepting and holding communications

Graham Dwyer was convicted on evidence gathered from his mobile phones.

The disturbing report by our Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe on the international cartels supplying Europe’s booming cocaine trade presents a grim picture of the cross-border challenges facing enforcement agencies.

With an unholy alliance of gangs or DTOs (drug-trafficking organisations) to use a particular Line of Duty descriptor drawn from Ireland, Britain, Holland, the Balkans, and Italy collaborating to control the market, investigators face a formidable array of difficulties.