HSE’s data breach bodes ill for contact tracing appApproach to data disclosure will not reassure anyone that data ethics is being prioritisedThu May 21 2020 - 06:00
We urgently need an employees’ manifesto on working from homeKarlin Lillington: Our current use of tech is further eroding division between work and homeThu May 14 2020 - 06:00
Coronavirus: There's a dangerous idiocy in the call for a race back to workNet Results: Those choosing Mammon over staff health are not those exposedThu May 7 2020 - 06:00
Data protection offices need proper resources now more than everKey legal requirement of GDPR is that states supply resources needed to enforce this important piece of legislationThu Apr 30 2020 - 11:55
It's time to ban websites from gathering our personal dataSurveillance giants such as Google now control 60% of the global advertising marketThu Apr 23 2020 - 09:58
How you and your technology can help fight Covid-19Net Results: Web volunteerism and crowdsourced missions offer humanitarian outletsThu Apr 16 2020 - 06:00
Why we should be slow to use tracking apps in coronavirus responseNet Results: Far greater transparency and evidence required for public to hand over dataThu Apr 9 2020 - 06:00
Coronavirus: Contact tracing app raises privacy concernsTwo types of very revealing data – location and health information – will be gatheredFri Apr 3 2020 - 01:00
Think you’re bad at video-conferencing? Boris Johnson is worseUK prime minister scores own-goal with proof of worryingly lax approach to securityThu Apr 2 2020 - 06:00
Data privacy erosions could leave a dangerous legacyNet Results: ‘Decisions made in haste are typically disastrous policymaking’Thu Mar 26 2020 - 06:00
Spanish flu and a stinky barrel of the MixtureNet Results: My great-grandparents and early 20th-century experience of ills and curesThu Mar 19 2020 - 06:00
Remote working: Why did it take a pandemic to sell an obviously good idea?Net Results: Wider working from home would have obvious benefits for quality of lifeThu Mar 12 2020 - 06:00
I was a gig economy employee with a virus who couldn't afford to self-isolateKarlin Lillington: Insecurity of gig economy creates perfect storm for a Covid-19 epidemicThu Mar 5 2020 - 07:29
Cavalier approach to data retention is long-standingKarlin Lillington: State has never addressed data retention in a timely way, in 20 yearsThu Feb 27 2020 - 06:00
Don’t be fooled by Facebook’s ‘regulate us, please’ media blitzPlaying the free speech card, Zuckerberg wants his own idea of beneficial-to-Facebook ‘regulation’Thu Feb 20 2020 - 06:00
Karlin Lillington: Are app ride services taking us in the right direction?The likes of Uber and Lyft have created major congestion headaches for airportsThu Feb 13 2020 - 06:00
'Doffing the cap' to Apple is a bad look for Ireland IncNet Results: Tech giant is major employer but it has benefitted plenty from 40 years in IrelandThu Jan 16 2020 - 07:58
Government is hanging taxpayers out to dry in row over public services cardNet Results: Department’s legal challenge to enforcement order on the card is crassThu Jan 9 2020 - 08:06
Privacy and data in 2019: We deserve better than surveillance capitalismKarlin Lillington: Tech companies now face greater legal and regulatory oppositionThu Jan 2 2020 - 05:00
Non-binding opinion on Schrems case elegant and practicalAnalysis: Companies on either side of Atlantic will find little comfort in ECJ opinionThu Dec 19 2019 - 18:26
Self-driving vehicles will render transport landscape obsoleteDo we really need four new lanes blasting through quiet villages or city centres?Thu Dec 19 2019 - 05:30
Unions might scare Google more than regulatorsChallenges mount for tech giant as buying Treasury Building pushes staff count to 10,000Thu Dec 5 2019 - 05:30
Ireland’s national genome project should not be in private controlNet Results: When will Government listen to the numerous experts alarmed at situation?Thu Nov 28 2019 - 06:30
Angry with Facebook over privacy? Google is even more insidiousGoogle is at the head of ‘surveillance capital’, harvesting our data and monetising itThu Nov 21 2019 - 05:30
Is data privacy a basic right in the EU? Maybe it’s time to find outNet Results: An Oireachtas committee heard that the current social media model should be bannedThu Nov 14 2019 - 05:30
Inside RTÉ: A view from the boardroomPublic service broadcaster requires income stability to do the job we need it to doFri Nov 8 2019 - 17:32
Karlin Lillington: Ban all indiscriminate data gatheringOnline advertising ‘an almost completely unregulated environment’ with no transparencyThu Nov 7 2019 - 05:30
Facebook’s man-child CEO does not need to be ‘understood’ – he needs to grow upZuckerberg has been starring in his own special theatre of the absurdThu Oct 31 2019 - 05:30
What a night at the Google family home might look likeCompany’s smart devices chief says we should tell visitors about gadgets in our housesThu Oct 24 2019 - 05:30
Government’s 'underfunding' of data watchdog is bumbling and riskyNet Results: Multinationals worry about perception of petty vengeance over public services cardThu Oct 17 2019 - 05:30
Google’s children’s internet safety grant a bad jokeLast month’s $170 million fine was a paltry sum for a company the size of GoogleThu Sep 26 2019 - 05:30
Festivals are fun, but what about the carbon footprint?Net Results: The Galway Jazz Festival is hoping to become a blueprint for other major eventsThu Sep 19 2019 - 05:30
US antitrust action has tech companies sweating on their home turfNet Results: EU has issued fines now US public’s anti-tech mood spurs official actionThu Sep 12 2019 - 05:30
Public Services Card debacle headed for legal slapdown at our expenseIreland has been here before, and it seems the State took nothing from the lessonThu Sep 5 2019 - 05:30
Net Results: Sci-fi, spandex and the wonders of WorldConScience fiction convention in Dublin zapped visitors with lively and intense intelligenceThu Aug 29 2019 - 05:30
State will not learn from Public Services Card fiascoNet Results: Apart from data abuse, card cost €60m but detected just €2m in welfare fraudThu Aug 22 2019 - 05:30
Airport facial scanning: Dystopian nightmare rebranded as travel perkNet Results: The common defence that scans are optional is disingenuousThu Aug 15 2019 - 05:30
Hosting companies back in spotlight after US latest mass killingsNet Results: We are wrong to make internet corporations society’s de facto censorsThu Aug 8 2019 - 05:30
Grave concerns about the Public Services Card are being ignoredNet Results: A report on this discriminatory card needs to be made publicThu Aug 1 2019 - 05:30
The gig economy: anathema to integral human development?Net Results: A theological perspective at a recent conference was surprisingly illuminatingThu Jul 25 2019 - 05:30
Moon landing was almost comically low-tech – by today’s standardsKarlin Lillington: Watching this historic moment as child was wondrous and inspiringThu Jul 18 2019 - 05:30
Schrems II will seriously stress test EU’s data privacy rulesNet Results: US has made wrong assumptions about European data protection lawsThu Jul 11 2019 - 18:06
How Silicon Docks is killing DublinNet Results: We need to talk about the kind of city we want before more tech firms arriveThu Jul 4 2019 - 07:24
Holographs and ‘warm technology’: considering the future of AIAt the Kultursumposium in Weimar, many fascinating questions were explored about robots and their impact on human relationshipsThu Jun 27 2019 - 05:30
Libra is warped hybrid that seeks to consolidate Facebook’s vast powerNet Results: Cryptocurrency is strongest argument yet for enforcing antitrust lawsThu Jun 20 2019 - 05:30
Irish approach to broadband was wiser in 1998 than it is nowNet Results: State ultimately failed to fund the excellent proposals of Mary O’RourkeThu Jun 13 2019 - 05:30
Why the Internet of Things is becoming scaryThermostats, air conditioning, baby monitors and door locks all disabledThu Jun 6 2019 - 10:53
Lessons from WhatsApp hack: we are all victims of global spyware industryNet Results: Developer of Pegasus spyware says its clients are governments and state agenciesThu May 16 2019 - 05:30
Fake views: the trouble with some Amazon ‘customers’Net Results: Consumers are being duped and the practice is helping Amazon’s bottom lineThu May 9 2019 - 05:30
‘Disruption’ has become the most dangerous of tech conceptsNet Results: The term has taken on an ever more aggressive meaning for monopolistic firmsThu May 2 2019 - 05:30