885. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the Microsoft Transparency Report, published on 21 March 2013 in which it was reported that An Garda Síochána had made 72 requests to Microsoft in respect of 222 different email and other accounts, and that in five cases, contents of emails were provided by Microsoft to An Garda Síochána and in 46 cases, non-content user information was provided by Microsoft to An Garda Síochána, if he will provide the legal basis on which the emails are being read by An Garda Síochána; the safeguards that are in place to provide oversight of the process, such as ministerial warrant; the mechanisms that are in place to ensure that no abuses take place with such access procedures; if legislation covering the interception of telecommunications messages covered digital data; and if legislation needs to be amended in this area. [16265/13]

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885. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the Microsoft Transparency Report, published on 21 March 2013 in which it was reported that An Garda Síochána had made 72 requests to Microsoft in respect of 222 different email and other accounts, and that in five cases, contents of emails were provided by Microsoft to An Garda Síochána and in 46 cases, non-content user information was provided by Microsoft to An Garda Síochána, if he will provide the legal basis on which the emails are being read by An Garda Síochána; the safeguards that are in place to provide oversight of the process, such as ministerial warrant; the mechanisms that are in place to ensure that no abuses take place with such access procedures; if legislation covering the interception of telecommunications messages covered digital data; and if legislation needs to be amended in this area. [16265/13]

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