Legal

Eir accuses Comreg of seizing ‘extraordinary’ amount of data during unannounced inspection

The data was seized as part of an investigation commenced by Comreg into Eir’s scheme for offering discounted prices for certain regulated products

Comreg has asked the court to determine that its proposed protocol for sifting through the data to exclude irrelevant and legally privileged material is legitimate. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Eir has accused the communications regulator of seizing an “extraordinary” amount of material from its headquarters earlier this year and failing to provide it with details of why the data was taken, documents filed in the High Court show.

The telecoms company and Comreg are currently engaged in a legal fight over hundreds of gigabytes of data the regulator seized during an unannounced inspection in May.

Comreg wants the High Court to rule that its ...