Before The Flood

Reception at Independent News and Media

This afternoon.

Further to an RTE report this lunchtime about how it appears an alleged data breach at Independent News and Media may have included emails sent from an ‘external person’ to one of the so-called INM 19…..

Journalist and activist Eamonn Crudden writes:

Dear INM,

I have supplied, as an activist and journalist, over many years a variety of data to Independent News and Media. That obviously involved my consenting to INM using it in a variety of ways appropriate to a news organisation.

I have a firmly held belief – as a result of considering the totality of the information now in the public domain in the UK and Irish mainstream press around the story of the “#INM19” that this data – and my identity as the source of the data – has been conveyed to a 3rd party without my knowledge or consent and without any other lawful basis for this conveyance.

I also have a sincerely held belief that data concerning me in the form of email exchanges between Independent Newspaper Group staff – and potentially between such staff and other parties concerning me – which may be damaging to my good name – may have been conveyed in the same manner.

I believe that the processing (including storage) of that type of data by a 3rd party clearly constitutes an ongoing data breach.

I believe sincerely that the original data controller (at the time of any given example of my conveyance of data to INM) as well as INM more generally – is now answerable for this ongoing breach.

The e-mail addresses I have used as a journalist and citizen are ecrudden@hotmail.com and ecrudden@gmail.com. Only the second of the two is presently in use by me.

I have a sincerely held belief my right to privacy – as both 1) a citizen and 2) a journalist/activist – has been traduced.

Can you assist me in sourcing, identifying and reviewing any and all such data immediately so that I may be in a position to assess any potential personal consequences and consequences for those I worked with in the contexts of journalism and activism in the past?

I would also be interested to hear how INM might propose 1) to remedy the damage that has almost certainly been inflicted on my right to privacy (considering recent news reports as described above) and 2) to halt what I believe to be the ongoing nature of such a breach.

Yours,

Eamonn Crudden

So it begins.

Earlier: ‘Emails To And From INM And Also Digital Files’

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