Data Privacy

VW Ireland boss says ‘more conversation is needed’ around the gathering of data both technical and personal following German data breach

Much of the data on your phone is more valuable than the device itself should it get stolen

Alongside the technology sector’s many benefits have come new and insidious threats, damages and dangers

Election counts are an amateur production put on for the benefit and enjoyment of the actors rather than the audience

Report for Minister of Health recommends introduction of contract templates, key performance indicators and a unified costing framework

UK consumer protection advocates Which? found that certain air fryers gather personal data that has little or no relevance to the functioning of the product

Issue centred on use of personal data to train AI systems

Business leaders are the most important stakeholder in driving change and creating a culture of innovation where employees can successfully create and adapt to evolving technologies

Social network agreed to ‘suspend its processing of the personal data’, Data Protection Commission says

Former chief executive of media group described outcome of lengthy inquiry that yielded a 868-page report at a cost of almost €6 million as ‘weird’

Court’s earlier ruling on phone metadata admissibility issues was a significant blow to Dwyer

META-FINES (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws

We have yet to be given clear reasons why we need facial recognition technology even though a Bill relating to it is meandering through our political process

Step intended to combat child sexual abuse online has been widely condemned as ineffective and in breach of fundamental rights

Dwyer made similar, not identical, arguments in appeal against murder conviction

Follow these steps if you want to object to your data and posts being used

Firefighters ‘shocked’ to learn dashcams had audio-recording capability

Watered down legislation still puts Europe ahead on regulating AI but enforcement could be held back by technological gaps

Personal details of more than 2,000 customers revealed to other clients of online insurance broker

Full names and vaccination status were available to unauthorised users, according to security researcher who discovered the issue

Current technology won’t accomplish Coimisiún na Meán’s ‘gold standard’ proposals to verify users accessing inappropriate internet content

Gabriel Makhlouf says key industry and data privacy concerns will be addressed before any digital currency launch

Talks planned weeks before company fined €345m in September for breaches of European data law

Anu Talus, the Finnish chair of the European Data Protection Board, the central body of national regulators overseeing EU data privacy laws, defends opposition to Irish watchdog’s fines

Karlin Lillington: Data breach at 23andMe highlights need for regulation as genetic background and other information hacked and offered for sale

Tech group plans a $14 monthly subscription fee for access via mobile

We have EU-wide responsibilities that are enormous in scale and consequence

Naas-based Sgt Thomas Bowe (51) and Niall Sheehy (58), from Stradbally, face 21 and 10 charges respectively

Project Clover migration to ringfence personal information

You cannot have rejuvenated policing with broken politics and an unanswered past, with MI5 still part of the present, and only lukewarm support from inside the republican community

Bankers often on wrong end of censure by the regulator will have had cause for a wry smile at its discomfiture

Jeffrey Donaldson said he would ‘suspend judgment’ for now on whether chief constable should resign over debacle

Measures in place to advise all members of Police Service of Northern Ireland, according to Simon Byrne

Arkadiusz Kaminski to receive €2,000 from Ballymaguire Foods in first such compensation decree by an Irish court

Online retail giant files legal action against proposed legislation designed to rein in Big Tech

Karlin Lillington: Despite a lack of clear research on harm to children from social media, there can be an rush towards legal curbs

Data privacy campaigner concerned law permits Minister to get ‘mass surveillance’ orders after private court hearing

Government move to force stopgap data retention and amendment that could gag discussion on complaints prolong history of State bungling on data protection

Stay will remain in place until end of July

Department of Justice has ‘no comment’ on allegation by Digital Rights Ireland