Referendum apps may be sharing data illegallyNet Results: Firms must not break law on app permissions and data they gatherThu May 24 2018 - 09:43
Zuckerberg has plenty to worry about after grilling by MEPsOverall optics were of a stunned Facebook CEO facing a barrage of weighty questionsTue May 22 2018 - 20:25
How Microsoft mutated into a moral leaderNet Results: While others secretively engage in data harvesting, Nadella changed Microsoft's corporate cultureThu May 17 2018 - 05:55
Karlin Lillington: Athenry decision disastrous for regional developmentPotential US investors will remember this for some time to comeThu May 10 2018 - 15:11
Net Results: Many US tech firms still dismissive of GDPRAll boats may rise to EU data laws, but it could take years of fines and court challengesThu May 10 2018 - 05:55
DNA databases: biology stripped bareNet Results: Should private DNA profiles be available to third parties for crime inquiries?Thu May 3 2018 - 06:03
Everyone’s talking about GDPR, but who’s got their head around it?Net Results: General Data Protection Regulation the top topic at RSA conferenceThu Apr 26 2018 - 05:50
OURSA conference more secure on gender balanceNew security conference in San Francisco offered more diverse line-up of speakersThu Apr 19 2018 - 05:15
Social media - the perfect platform for spreading disinformationRSA conference hears of ‘ fundamental redesign of how we communicate as people’Wed Apr 18 2018 - 22:07
All-woman tech panel warns of inadequate online legal protectionsOURSA, set up as alternative to RSA conference, says emerging technologies can be used for surveillance of usersWed Apr 18 2018 - 12:14
Cybersecurity ‘everyone’s problem’ across society – US security chiefSociety at point where ‘digital security is converging with personal and physical security’Tue Apr 17 2018 - 22:13
Karlin Lillington: How the High Court threw a huge curveball at FacebookUltimate decision could undermine business models at Google, Twitter and AppleThu Apr 12 2018 - 19:50
Zuckerberg remains serial apologist for privacy mishapsFacebook chief responds to US legislators with mixture of half-truths and mistruthsWed Apr 11 2018 - 17:01
Zuckerberg suits up for a stiff delivery before CongressFacebook chief wisely abandons hoodie to face senators’ grilling, but sticks to his scriptTue Apr 10 2018 - 21:54
US Cloud Act ends Microsoft Dublin email case with a whimperAct gives US ‘nearly unchecked’ power over global digital privacy rights, say criticsThu Apr 5 2018 - 06:15
Cambridge Analytica story affects us allIf you exist, it’s basically impossible for you not to be producing digital data that is harvestedThu Mar 29 2018 - 06:15
Zuckerberg’s slow response reveals long-standing disregard for privacyThe Facebook chief executive was evasive when he finally emerged to make a statement about the Cambridge Analytica crisisFri Mar 23 2018 - 09:22
We need to think hard about how to regulate the internetNet Results: Regulation and legislation vital when we do not own our data as defaultThu Mar 22 2018 - 06:15
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: Irish regulator has questions to answerData Protection Commissioner slow to enforce European privacy judgmentWed Mar 21 2018 - 01:27
Can we trust Facebook and Twitter to self- regulate?Scams, fake news and accounts – I think it’s time for mandatory regulationThu Mar 15 2018 - 06:15
Hosting Amazon's HQ may incur a bill not worth payingNet Results: Geo-corporate mating ritual takes place oblivious of potential downsidesThu Mar 8 2018 - 06:00
Airbnb impact on Dublin housing market must be addressedSan Francisco compulsory registration scheme one example Dublin could followThu Mar 1 2018 - 05:15
Rural Ireland is partly to blame for its slow broadbandKarlin Lillington: Internet inertia has exposed several ugly truths about State’s prioritiesThu Feb 8 2018 - 06:05
We all must do more to stop online abuse of children and adultsDigital safety decisions must not be rushed because the issue is topicalThu Feb 1 2018 - 06:00
Public fury over online abuse must push big tech to actIs proposed Digital Safety Commissioner role merely manoeuvring on a hot-topic issue?Fri Jan 26 2018 - 19:05
Surveillance does little to stop terror attacks, so why are our emails still being read?Net Results: Section 702 extension will hurt business over fears for data of EU citizensThu Jan 25 2018 - 05:55
Young Scientist exhibition shows Ireland at its brightest and bestBeloved national institution is so familiar it is easy to overlook how extraordinary it isThu Jan 18 2018 - 06:00
Wary of the Public Services Card? You have good reason to beNo national ID card has proven invulnerable to accidental leaks or dedicated hackersThu Jan 11 2018 - 07:07
IT giants too creative in application of word ‘innovation’Karlin Lillington: Firms must plough ideas into products not defend domination movesThu Jan 4 2018 - 06:00
Privacy and security will be the big tech stories of 2018Hacks, trolls, election manipulation, leaks – security is the evergreen tech concernThu Jan 4 2018 - 05:15
Reports of net neutrality’s death in US greatly exaggeratedNet Results: Move by FCC to abolish internet traffic equality faces formidable oppositionThu Dec 21 2017 - 07:00
Ireland must be a firm data protection advocate or risk losing global trustAs one of the top locations for the tech sector, we need a clearer stance on data obligationsThu Dec 14 2017 - 06:00
Ireland risks shooting itself in the foot in crucial Microsoft email caseAnalysis: Government wavering in case that threatens structure of global businessesSun Dec 10 2017 - 19:48
Who needs fancy-schmancy hacking when MPs share their passwords?Net Results: Do any TDs want to confess to sharing passwords around the office?Thu Dec 7 2017 - 06:30
Net neutrality faces the axe in the United StatesSilicon Valley leads opposition to US Federal Communications Commission proposalThu Nov 30 2017 - 06:00
Did Paris Hilton invent the selfie? And what does it all mean?Net Results: The yearning to self-immortalise must run deep in the human psycheThu Nov 23 2017 - 06:25
TruTrade cashless platform helps African farmers grow businessesSoftware developed by Self Help Africa assists farmers in securing fair pricesThu Nov 23 2017 - 06:25
Net Results: People must not be forced to operate onlineSome of us, for age or other reasons, choose quite reasonably to operate by analogueThu Nov 16 2017 - 06:00
Sneaky tax avoidance by super-wealthy elite is not victimlessTax avoidance as revealed in Paradise Papers results in funding losses for state servicesThu Nov 9 2017 - 06:00
Microsoft Ireland faces a data privacy battle in US supreme courtLegal row centres on whether the US can force US firms to hand over data held abroadThu Nov 2 2017 - 05:55
The modern-day Martin Luther challenging the Church of TechnopolyAn academic has illuminated the world-shaping and often invisible issues with techThu Nov 2 2017 - 05:35
US attempt to win right to grab Irish-held emails in Microsoft case is dangerousWhy is US chasing a line of legal thought that could easily in future be turned against it?Thu Oct 19 2017 - 01:00
Steps finally being taken to change shameful data retention lawIndiscriminate surveillance trampled on privacy rights of ordinary citizens for yearsThu Oct 12 2017 - 06:55
‘Buy Twitter’ campaign gaining attention but can it succeed?Social activists want to take the corporate out of Twitter by making it a public co-opThu Sep 28 2017 - 06:42
Public Services Card reveals State ignorance of data privacy issuesNet Results: Government must be aware of citizen rights when drafting database plansThu Sep 21 2017 - 06:10
Re:publica Dublin keeps focus on technology and societySpin-off of annual Berlin festival stays eclectic as it lands in Light House cinemaThu Sep 14 2017 - 06:10
New $1,000 iPhone X - a bargain of historic proportions?Before you complain, stop and think about how expensive and rubbish mobiles used to beWed Sep 13 2017 - 21:15
Education v entrepreneurship: How universities can strike a balanceRe:publica digital conference hears universities should not just focus on the bottom lineFri Sep 8 2017 - 17:38
Tech giants contributed to Dublin housing crisis, activists say‘Digital society’ event Re:publica hears call for sector to join push for affordable homesThu Sep 7 2017 - 19:28
Privacy Shield is already coming apart at the seamsThe US-EU data-transfer agreement is up for review, but its flaws are all too obviousThu Sep 7 2017 - 06:00