Paying for Twitter Blue has ironically robbed verification of value Elon Musk’s so far ill-fated effort to monetise account verification is undermining the worth of his social media investmentThu Apr 27 2023 - 05:00
Why we should be alarmed at Garda plans for facial recognition technologySeveral US cities banned technology in policing when analysis indicated, at best, 72% accuracy rate with higher rate of false positives for people of colourThu Apr 20 2023 - 05:00
Book up, because you can be both Team Print and Team Digital Audio Reading out loud triggers something very human, very ancient, and very rewardingThu Apr 13 2023 - 05:00
Google’s cuts to perks feel like a red herring to bigger issues facing techOne internal email axing snacks and massages is hardly a sign of another dotcom-style crash. But massive industry job cuts could beThu Apr 6 2023 - 05:00
Karlin Lillington: Gordon Moore was original tech industry starFew would have recognised Intel co- founder despite his enormous contribution to the world we live in todayThu Mar 30 2023 - 05:00
Publishers looking to delete library of digital books in licence spatCase triggered by lending of scanned and digitised books during Covid lockdown likely to end up in the US supreme courtThu Mar 23 2023 - 05:00
Big tech is all for capitalism until the going gets toughKarlin Lillington: SVB’s collapse pulls back curtain on ridiculous hypocrisies and false narratives beloved of tech sectorThu Mar 16 2023 - 06:00
Karlin Lillington: Long past time for closer scrutiny of TikTokYouth-focused social media platform has admitted allowing Chinese access to data and there are fears about the use of the data of minorsThu Mar 9 2023 - 05:00
Karlin Lillington: Why Iceland trumps Ireland as a home for data centresPower hungry data centres place huge strain on our grid and emissions They should be built further away, and rely on renewable energy.Thu Mar 2 2023 - 05:00
GAA clubs and other local groups may be unaware they are subject to new EU digital frameworkIreland has an opportunity to become a centre of excellence for advising on complianceThu Feb 23 2023 - 06:00
Smart devices’ limited supports are ridiculous and damagingMany large appliances lose support for so-called smart features after just a couple of years. That’s not good enoughThu Feb 16 2023 - 05:00
Karlin Lillington: Getting to grips with AIWhat combination of algorithm, data input and analysis crosses the line between machine learning and artificial intelligenceThu Feb 9 2023 - 05:00
GDPR complaints system is an unfair burden on Ireland and a weakness for EuropeOne-stop shop places an unmanageable load on one small member state’s underfunded data regulatorThu Feb 2 2023 - 05:00
Karlin Lillington: Reports of email’s death are greatly exaggerated, yet againPeople have sounded the death knell for email for years, and they’ve been wrong every timeThu Jan 26 2023 - 05:00
Karlin Lillington: A relief to have that Twitter jackhammer silenced … mostly‘I’m shocked at how narrow a range of people and discussions Twitter’s algorithm fed to me’Thu Jan 19 2023 - 06:00
Could the internet now move towards the promise of earlier days?Karlin Lillington: Data breaches, disinformation, scams and the likes of Elon Musk. But change may be in the airThu Dec 29 2022 - 06:00
Beware your smart Christmas tech gifts in the season of surveillanceKarlin Lillington: Any ‘smart’ present you give this Christmas means your or your gift recipient’s data will be gathered and sent back to the companyThu Dec 22 2022 - 06:00
Tougher restricted breed law will not stop dog attacksActual and pressing problem is State’s low level of enforcement regarding existing canine legislationTue Dec 13 2022 - 00:00
Government inaction leaves our data retention laws in limboGraham Dwyer case is a consequence of Government inaction on data lawsThu Dec 8 2022 - 04:30
Elon Musk’s Twitter opera exposes hazards posed by tech sectorIf Musk were competing in some billionaire version of The Apprentice, he’d have been fired by now for incompetenceThu Dec 1 2022 - 05:30
To my surprise, Apple went from surely-about-to-collapse to one of the most valuable companies everKarlin Lillington: It’s sometimes depressing to look back at columns I wrote 10 or 20 years ago and see the exact same unresolved issues around data privacy, copyright, regulation, control, surveillance, digital access and equalityThu Nov 24 2022 - 11:15
Karlin Lillington: A wild geese of tech scenario keeps Ireland frettingOur twin-track economy — booming multinationals and sometimes struggling domestic economy — must be more closely alignedThu Nov 17 2022 - 06:00
#Mastodaoine: Twitter woes prompt Irish Mastodon stampedeLittle-known platform once the preserve of a few is now adding ‘instances’ in the thousandsThu Nov 10 2022 - 06:00
Karlin Lillington: Ireland’s forgotten computer pioneerOnly in his 20s, Percy Ludgate designed the world’s second computer in the early years of the 20th centuryThu Nov 3 2022 - 05:00
Web of Lies by Aoife Gallagher; The Moderator: Inside Facebook’s Dirty Work in Ireland by Chris GrayFrom rabbit-hole conspiracy theories fuelled by the internet, to torrid moderation for a tech giantWed Nov 2 2022 - 04:13
Billionaire-owned platforms lose sight of the vulnerable Reach of Twitter means we will all be affected by Elon Musk closing the deal as planned this week, even if we are not on the platformThu Oct 27 2022 - 05:00
Joe Biden’s move to accommodate EU data protection laws does not go far enough Transatlantic data transfers ‘are critical to enabling the $7.1 trillion EU-US economic relationship’Thu Oct 13 2022 - 05:00
Smartphone upgrade season shows negligence and hypocrisy of consumersUsing your smartphone for seven years is the best way to reduce its environmental impactThu Oct 6 2022 - 05:00
Apparently, in a world full of terrible conflicts, Irish people are especially deserving of work opportunities in USIreland fought for its US ‘undocumented’ even as the ‘undocumented’ here were deported, and refugees isolated into direct provisionThu Sep 15 2022 - 05:30
Karlin Lillington: Energy-hungry big business should accept paying more for their supplyRegulator's proposal to charge big firms for using electricity at peak times is fraction of government supports given over the yearsThu Sep 8 2022 - 05:00
Don’t expect Meta to pull out of EU if DPC halts data transfers to USMeta's threat to halt services in the EU if data transfers to the US are halted should not be taken seriouslyThu Sep 1 2022 - 05:00
Karlin Lillington: An editorial decision that ensured journalism became my careerDeparting Irish Times editor decided to run this column and that proved to be a pivotal momentThu Aug 25 2022 - 05:45
Will Alex Jones’s $49m penalty prove an effective deterrent to disinformation?Disinformation ruins lives and that needs to changeThu Aug 18 2022 - 05:00
Energy crisis can be no surprise to anyone in ‘official Ireland’The precarious nature of the State’s energy supply infrastructure has been long-standing even as we handed out data centre permitsThu Aug 11 2022 - 05:30
Ireland is facing a competition for chip projects that is based in massive corporate welfare handoutsIreland must win cutting-edge projects not to become irrelevant and at risk of closuresThu Aug 4 2022 - 05:00
Beware the aubergine emoji, it’s fraught with miscommunication potentialSurveys suggests it’s best not to send a peach emoji to your boss, nor the aubergine oneThu Jul 28 2022 - 05:00
Uber Files throw harsh light on lack of transparency in lobbyingWhistleblowing is not a regulatory strategy and influencing needs tighter controlsThu Jul 21 2022 - 05:00
Not enough is being done by governments and business to support those hit by online fraudMy older relative is one of so many to have fallen victim to an expensive scamThu Jul 14 2022 - 05:00
The Digital Republic: Karlin Lillington on a book Irish politicians should read as they try to regulate tech This author packs in many important ideas, says Karlin LillingtonTue Jul 12 2022 - 05:38
Ireland’s slapdash approach to data retention legislation sinks to new lowEmergency legislation has been rushed through with little oversight. European court, here we come (for a third time)Thu Jul 7 2022 - 05:00
Women exposed to lack of data privacy after overturning of Roe v WadeTech sector may virtue signal on protecting women workers but it collects data that leaves them vulnerableThu Jun 30 2022 - 05:00
Internet Explorer’s legacy should be as a cautionary tale and blueprintBrowser’s legal travails nearly broke Microsoft but ultimately may have saved the tech giantThu Jun 23 2022 - 05:45
Karlin Lillington: Sheryl Sandberg honed a toxic income model that brought staggering wealth to FacebookWithout her voice in Zuckerberg’s ear, the platform could have become a fleeting social network wonderThu Jun 9 2022 - 05:30
Facial recognition technology: A solution to problems that hardly existSurveilling every person in a building is a hugely disproportionate preventative measureThu Jun 2 2022 - 06:00
Culture shift needed as audiences decline for both real and virtual eventsNet Results: Digital reproductions of the in-person experience will not keep people coming backThu May 26 2022 - 05:00
Farewell iPod, and thanks for all the musical memoriesKarlin Lillington: Now it’s hard to convey just how unique it felt to own oneThu May 19 2022 - 05:30
Toxic data-grabbing environment inhibits real tech innovationThird-party tracking remains ‘a significant and ubiquitous privacy threat’Thu May 12 2022 - 05:30
An anything-goes Twitter? Elon Musk’s fantasy can never come trueNet Results: Law must step up and protect against data power grabs by billionairesThu Apr 28 2022 - 05:30
Net Results: Law enforcement and the digital landscapeIs Ireland not pulling its weight when it comes to applying the GDPR?Thu Apr 21 2022 - 05:30
Pegasus misuse highlights the need for regulation of digital spying toolsGovernments must work together to better delineate uncrossable lines for such softwareThu Apr 14 2022 - 05:30