Assoc ProfessorTJ McIntyre

Invited written submission and oral evidence on privacy issues in Social Welfare Bill regarding public services cards.

Invited written submission and oral evidence on the General Scheme of the National Cyber Security Bill 2024

Domain name panelist for WIPO Domain Name Administrative Panels (adjudicating on disputes regarding registration and use of domain names).

Invited written submission and oral evidence on the General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022.

External examiner for LLM (International Business Law) programme

Invited written submission and oral evidence on the General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill

Invited written submission and oral testimony on reform of Irish law on online harassment and harmful communications, including issues of freedom of expression and privacy.

Anonymous peer review

Invited written submission and oral testimony regarding the reform of Irish spent convictions law, its compatibility with European human rights standards and its impact on rehabilitation of offenders

Specialist adjudicator for the .ie domain name Alternative Dispute Resolution Policy.

Member

Winner of the runner-up prize in the 2018 Research Impact Case Study Competition for research on regulation of surveillance, culminating in a landmark judgment of the European Court of Justice striking down the Data Retention Directive. [Judgment of 8 April 2014, Digital Rights Ireland and Seitlinger Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12, EU:C:2014:238]

Invited written submission and oral evidence on the General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017.

Invited written submission and oral testimony on the general scheme of the General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017.

Serving as Irish national expert on data protection and information society issues for the Irish Centre for Human Rights research contract on behalf of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, from 2014 onwards.

Served as Irish expert and contributor to project evaluating the controversial 2010 Hungarian Media Law against a wider European context.The finished report is available as Brouillette and Van Beek (editors), Hungarian Media Laws in Europe: An Assessment of the Consistency of Hungary's Media Laws with European Practices and Norms (Budapest: CMCS, 2011).

A European law providing for mass surveillance of the entire population was struck down in 2014 following seven years of litigation by Digital Rights Ireland. UCD law lecturer Dr TJ McIntyre is the chair of Digital Rights Ireland and the legal arguments in the case were based on his research into privacy and data protection rights. The judgment in the case, by the European Court of Justice, was a landmark decision for privacy and has led to similar surveillance laws being struck down across the EU — as well as reform of the law in Ireland.