Graham Dwyer ruling a reminder Ireland lives in a data rights Groundhog DayKarlin Lillington: We just go round and round failing to address serious data issuesThu Apr 7 2022 - 05:30
Karlin Lillington: Ireland misguided in efforts to regulate online abuse‘To compel platforms to divulge information at state or law enforcement request is ... insane’Wed Apr 6 2022 - 05:32
Spyware Pegasus found on hacked mobile phones of four human rights defendersInclusion of several Jordanian women among targets ‘merits special attention’Tue Apr 5 2022 - 10:00
EU-US data transfer deal faces same privacy issues that floored previous accordsKarlin Lillington: ‘In principle’ data protection deals do not have history on their sideThu Mar 31 2022 - 05:30
Ireland’s allure for multinationals is about a lot more than tax ratesKarlin Lillington: Our strength, resilience and openness will keep attracting investorsThu Mar 24 2022 - 05:30
Technology and the green glow of IrelandKarlin Lillington: For a quarter-century, State has been attractive to global tech sectorThu Mar 17 2022 - 05:30
Ireland must be wary about the devastating impact of Russian cyberwarfareKarlin Lillington: People should be taking basic steps to protect against potential cyberattacksThu Mar 10 2022 - 05:30
Data Protection Commission’s Meta ruling could lead to decisive victory for data privacyIf ‘no transfers’ decision gets EU backing, onus will be on US to get its data act togetherThu Mar 3 2022 - 05:30
Pulling the plug on the lucrative business of fake product reviewsNet Results: New laws against false reviews are planned, but will they have any effect?Thu Feb 10 2022 - 05:30
Neil Young may have given Spotify the kick it has long deservedExit by veteran rocker amplifies both streamer’s misinformation and artist exploitationThu Feb 3 2022 - 05:30
Karlin Lillington: Latest instalment in Brexit saga? Free flow of dataIf the UK cannot meet European Union standards, it will become a global data pariahThu Jan 27 2022 - 05:00
Is our open-arms policy on data centres coming back to bite us?Net Results: Data centres’ high energy use may be to blame for loss of chip-making jobsThu Jan 20 2022 - 06:00
Where does hype end and fraud begin in Silicon Valley?Net Results: Rise and fall of Theranos must give the valley and connections pause for thoughtThu Jan 13 2022 - 05:55
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari: Social media, technology and why you can’t pay attentionBook review: An accessible piece of work that sometimes veers into TED Talk territorySat Jan 8 2022 - 06:00
Big Tech faces groundhog day as 2021's challenges set tone for 2022From chip shortages to employee power and calls for regulation, 2021 was a year of concern for the sectorMon Jan 3 2022 - 05:45
Karlin Lillington’s biggest technology stories of 2021: NFTs, Meta and moreNet Results: From mRNA vaccines to discontent with Data Protection CommissionersThu Dec 23 2021 - 05:00
Social media's data key to keeping young people safe onlineLack of detailed evidence means regulators are in dark on what is neededThu Dec 16 2021 - 07:37
DPC needs an overhaul of funding, structure and leadershipNet Results: Inability to take data protection seriously is damaging Ireland’s reputationThu Dec 9 2021 - 06:00
Academics express concern to Zuckerberg over potential Meta harmOpen letter calls on Meta chief to improve research standards on harm to adolescentsMon Dec 6 2021 - 06:18
Graham Dwyer case: Government arrogantly ignored European Court of Justice ruling from 2014Net Results: In light of phone data case Ireland has a cheek telling UK to abide by ECJThu Nov 25 2021 - 05:00
Net Results: My blood is boiling over the Science Gallery closureTCD and the Government are abandoning young minds and a famed flagship projectThu Nov 18 2021 - 05:30
Surveillance tools like Pegasus should not be for saleNet Results: Targeting of Palestinian activists’ phones is the latest evidence of abuseThu Nov 11 2021 - 05:00
Irish NGO finds spyware on phones of Palestinian activistsFront Line Defenders found traces of the Pegasus programme on six phonesMon Nov 8 2021 - 11:29
Data transfer and digital trade destined to stay perplexingNet Results: Devil will be in the detail of any seeming accords on information exchangeThu Nov 4 2021 - 05:00
Facebook will shrug off the latest onslaught of bad pressNet Results: The latest stories will change nothing without decisive regulatory actionThu Oct 28 2021 - 05:00
The Contrarian. Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power: horribly fascinatingBook review: It is extraordinary the PayPal founder’s actions failed to make him a pariahSat Oct 23 2021 - 06:00
Apple’s proposed surveillance tech for iPhones aimed at child protection was seriously flawedClient-side scanning aimed at child protection was seriously flawedThu Oct 21 2021 - 06:00
OECD tax deal: State should be ashamed. We should have done betterRepublic called out for covering its assets, rather than considering any place, or anybody elseThu Oct 14 2021 - 05:30
Tenth anniversary of tech trailblazer Steve Jobs’s deathNet Results: A decade later, he is here with us daily, in a tech world he did, indeed, changeThu Oct 7 2021 - 00:00
Ireland is a ‘GDPR bottleneck’ that lets big tech off the hookThe architect of the EU law believes a centralised regulator with real teeth is requiredThu Sep 30 2021 - 05:00
We are still making the same mistakes when it comes to technology in educationNet Results: Emerging field of EdTech must emphasis pedagogical methods for PCsThu Sep 23 2021 - 05:00
Britain looks to weaken rules on data privacyMove could further hamper UK economy given importance of UK/EU data flowsThu Sep 16 2021 - 00:00
Wearables: The pros and cons of health trackingKarlin Lillington: Devices can be lifesavers, but may also lead to unnecessary medical visitsThu Aug 19 2021 - 04:45
Why did State put €66m into a private DNA firm instead of national genomics research?Those who invested Government funds have questions to answer after Genuity Science saleWed Aug 18 2021 - 05:05
Karlin Lillington: Technology finally gets around to doing my typingNew online tools for voice transcription rewrite the rulesThu Aug 12 2021 - 05:00
Delay, deny, deflect: the Facebook school of crisis managementA new book reveals a lot about how the social media giant operates and its bid for market dominanceSat Aug 7 2021 - 06:00
Cormac McCarthy (not) tweeting has been highlight of my summer so farKarlin Lillington: Platform’s most recent stumble has given publications a delicious silly season angleThu Aug 5 2021 - 05:00
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for DominationSheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang dig into a giant whose strategy is root of so much evilSat Jul 31 2021 - 06:00
The growing right-to-repair movement tackling throwaway tech cultureNet Results: Consumers fed up binning costly devices due to manufacturers’ restrictionsThu Jul 29 2021 - 05:30
Karlin Lillington: Pegasus Project exposes menace of surveillanceAnalysis of hacked phones by project reveals capacity to access data and spy on the ownerThu Jul 22 2021 - 05:30
Is Big Tech about to be reined in?Karlin Lillington: US protection of privacy and data more at state than federal levelThu Jul 15 2021 - 05:30
I played a computer game in the 1960s. Now we are the gameNet Results: A fun game of hangman in my youth now seems an eerie premonitionThu Jul 8 2021 - 05:30
Karlin Lillington: Is Mr Bean the lead consultant on UK’s email security policies?Net Results: Hancock’s Gmail use shocking as it exposed affairs of state to great riskThu Jul 1 2021 - 05:30
Pandemic has accelerated a working from home trend already apparentKarlin Lillington: New-found employee muscle is likely to expand beyond just WFH demandsThu Jun 24 2021 - 05:30
ECJ lays down a challenge to Ireland's Data Protection CommissionProperly functioning one-stop shop is good policy – both for Big Tech and EU citizensThu Jun 17 2021 - 05:30
EU decision on Facebook oversight a blow to Irish Data Protection CommissionerAnalysis: No multinational anywhere in the EU will be happy with the ECJ’s rulingTue Jun 15 2021 - 18:45
Cloud storage undermines ‘fail-safe’ design of the internetOutage highlights that, in the cloud, power is concentrated in a few at the top – as is riskThu Jun 10 2021 - 05:30
Karlin Lillington: Hard to see how EU-US data-exchange deal can be reliable data bridgeNet Results: US security laws lax on surveillance and data gatheringThu Jun 3 2021 - 05:30
GDPR is being used as a bureaucratic dodge to avoid public scrutinyKarlin Lillington: The data protection legislation remains groundbreaking despite issuesThu May 27 2021 - 05:30
HSE cyberattack was an accident waiting to happenRansomware attack has been increasingly likely since start of pandemicThu May 20 2021 - 06:07