Social media ban deepens sense of isolation in times of tragedyNet Results: Terrorism is no excuse for shutting down social mediaThu Apr 25 2019 - 05:30
Forcing tech giants to share data not the way to goData interoperability and portability could level the digital playing field for smaller firmsThu Apr 18 2019 - 05:30
Debate required around company’s plan to use Irish DNA for private profitPrivate Irish genome research company GMI wants to gather DNA from 400,000 Irish peopleThu Apr 11 2019 - 05:30
Apple’s latest plans should worry us allKarlin Lillington: Tech firm’s new ventures show the relentless overreach of the Big FiveThu Mar 28 2019 - 05:30
State websites are aiding a disgraceful silent surveillanceKarlin Lillington: Public sector sites are unintentionally allowing firms to track our dataThu Mar 21 2019 - 05:45
The world will be watching our dealings with multinationalsNet Results: Irish politicians need to be above board in the face of huge lobbying powerThu Mar 7 2019 - 05:30
Staff put Microsoft in ethical hot seat over army contractNet Results: Firm has been an ethics leader in big tech, but has some soul-searching to doThu Feb 28 2019 - 05:30
US should fix its own lax tax system before attacking IrelandKarlin Lillington: Loopholes in legislation mean firms pay fraction of Trump’s 21% rateThu Feb 21 2019 - 05:45
German ruling on Facebook data collection could finally protect consumersNet Results: Ruling would give power to users to opt out of invisible mega-harvest of dataThu Feb 14 2019 - 05:30
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshanna Zuboff: Data disasterZuboff: surveillance by private firms is a crisis as serious as climate changeSat Feb 2 2019 - 07:00
Nothing like new technology to make some of us feel oldKarlin Lillington: Remember command lines, floppy disks and dial-up modems?Thu Jan 24 2019 - 05:30
Are you watching your TV – or is your TV watching you?Net Results: There’s a reason why modern, feature-packed smart TVs are so cheapThu Jan 17 2019 - 05:30
Want to enter a Kafkaesque nightmare? Try using your Public Services CardIllogical, confusing: PSC may serve the State’s data acquisition whims, but it fails the citizenThu Jan 10 2019 - 05:30
The penny has finally dropped about the intrusions of big techNet Results: The public is wising up to data gathering abuses, but that’s just the startWed Jan 2 2019 - 17:00
Data privacy: failing to address critical issues 20 years onWhile EU now has GDPR, little has changed in US on data privacy and data protectionThu Dec 20 2018 - 05:30
How the Mother of All Demos portrayed the power of possibilitiesNet Results: Five decades after Douglas Englebart clicked the first mouse, it is still a gobsmacking thing of wonderThu Dec 13 2018 - 05:49
In Silicon Valley, burning anger against big tech is palpableNet Results: For many years Palo Alto natives relished being tech’s ground zero. No longerThu Dec 6 2018 - 06:00
Don’t buy online DNA ancestry tests. You are the real productNet Results: The sale of DNA databases for private research is of huge ethical concernThu Nov 29 2018 - 05:00
Microsoft president says defending democracy is a big cybersecurity challenge‘What we’re seeing is technology tools that some people . . . are turning into weapons’Sat Nov 24 2018 - 05:59
If Facebook’s top executives can’t control it, how can Ireland?Net Results: The State says it intends to regulate Facebook as needed. Sigh. Go on, tryThu Nov 22 2018 - 05:00
Why society isn’t ready for the high-tech future that is fast approachingExperts believe the start of mind and physical enhancements is a matter of years awayThu Nov 15 2018 - 05:00
Have we reached a tipping point towards a better internet?Tim Berners-Lee may feel he created a monster, but there are grounds for optimismThu Nov 8 2018 - 05:00
When having a strong password can mean life or deathNet Results: UN award for Irish human rights group Front Line Defenders is well-deservedThu Nov 1 2018 - 05:30
Big tech’s homelessness row in San Francisco offers lesson for DublinKarlin Lillington: Billionaires are opposing taxation to help those they have displacedThu Oct 25 2018 - 05:00
Paul Allen: The reclusive billionaire who changed the tech worldKarlin Lillington: Microsoft co-founder was part of the firm’s nerdish yin and yangThu Oct 18 2018 - 05:00
Ginni Rometty: Leading slimmed-down Big Blue into the cloudThe head of IBM challenges people to judge her by her actions, which are manyFri Oct 12 2018 - 05:12
I never expected to be the target of porn blackmailKarlin Lillington: Although I knew the specific threat was a bluff, I had wider worriesThu Oct 11 2018 - 05:00
Could a €1.6bn fine make Facebook finally care about users’ privacy rights?Massive data breach made headlines but Facebook’s trade in user data is as scandalousThu Oct 4 2018 - 05:00
Right to be forgotten key to regulatory scrutiny of internet giantsNet Results: Dispute has arisen over search engines linking to factually correct dataThu Sep 13 2018 - 05:30
Citizenship ceremony: ‘I thought it might be silly, but no, it was emotional’Karlin Lillington: At a time of global exclusions, what we heard was warm and embracingMon Sep 10 2018 - 20:51
Net Results: Is California leading net neutrality rebellion?Trump’s self-googling ego set for bruising with Bill to curb internet service providersThu Sep 6 2018 - 06:00
Time to dump young male founder myth and invest in greater diversityNet Results: Not only are most tech company founders not young guys, but most successful tech companies are founded by the middle agedThu Aug 30 2018 - 06:21
Data commissioner will need to show mettle dealing with GoogleNet Results: Alleged collection of location-based data needs to be investigated formallyThu Aug 23 2018 - 05:00
Attempts to keep online data private a futile endeavourData science pioneer Jeffrey Ullman has ‘mixed feelings’ about industry regulationThu Aug 23 2018 - 03:25
Ireland on the front line of Google location tracking scandalA GDPR experts says giant may be punished for opaque location tracking controlsThu Aug 16 2018 - 05:00
Google and Apple kowtowing to China unmasks hypocrisy of free speech claimsHypocrisy of free speech claims exposed by pandering of Silicon Valley giants to BeijingThu Aug 9 2018 - 05:00
Time for regulators to face down FacebookNet Results: Why we shouldn’t buy the ‘co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour’ excuseThu Aug 2 2018 - 05:00
Future looks a little less rosy for Facebook and TwitterKarlin Lillington: Breathtaking share price drops cause both companies to lose about 19% of value in a single daySat Jul 28 2018 - 05:20
Nostalgia for pre-digital age no map for youthNet Results: Adults are way off mark if we think we can prescribe way forward for modern teenagersThu Jul 26 2018 - 05:00
Chipmaker increasingly on outside after decades of ‘Intel Inside’Intel risks being left behind through lack of innovationFri Jul 20 2018 - 04:15
Why do we continue to put our trust in Facebook and Google?Bad week for internet overlords marked by undercover exposé and €4.3bn fineThu Jul 19 2018 - 04:35
Facebook's flawed rules: Female nipple? Block. Man kicking a child? KeepDispatches programme highlights how social media giant is failing to address concerns over hateful contentTue Jul 17 2018 - 18:13
Net Results: Data centres need to power down their energy requirementsWhy are the State and its investment agencies so eager to keep luring these large-scale, big energy, low employMent projects?Thu Jul 12 2018 - 06:00
California setting new data privacy standards for the USKarlin Lillington: US firms thought they might dodge greater consumer privacy obligationsThu Jul 5 2018 - 05:46
Facebook answers to Oireachtas committee raise further questionsNet Results: Social media giant opaque on referendum advertising campaignsThu Jun 28 2018 - 10:21
EU’s attempt at internet copyright reform is a ridiculous own goalNet Results: Two draconian measures will lead to mass surveillance and curb contentThu Jun 21 2018 - 06:15
Calm down – Silicon Valley is far more expensive than DublinNet Results: That ECA report on living costs made headlines but it needs unpackingThu Jun 14 2018 - 05:59
Hooray for GDPR: scale of data-grabbing exposed to the lightNew revelations about Huffington Post and Facebook data-sharing are jaw-droppingThu Jun 7 2018 - 06:15
Cultural change on privacy needed if GDPR is to work, says Max SchremsKarlin Lillington: Activist urges digital giants to facilitate online users’ right to privacyWed Jun 6 2018 - 05:00
Mary Mulvihill: A pioneer who blazed a trail for other womenGuiding touch of science journalist who died three years ago aged 55 can still be feltThu May 31 2018 - 05:15