Data Privacy

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

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

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

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

Group complains about social media platforms’ handling of personal data under certain article of the GDPR

Meta says it will lose about €664m in revenue if the decision’s effects are not delayed

Data Protection Commissioner initially planned not to fine Meta for data breaches but fines are arguably the most dissuasive tool in the GDPR toolkit

Roles will be located in Dublin, Belfast and England as company set to almost double in size

With fewer than 30 fines handed out, Ireland doesn’t even crack the top 10, but advocates say the laws have had positive effects

Case centres on Facebook’s transfers of personal data to the US in defiance of EU law

Order to delete data processed and stored unlawfully in US could be more problematic for Facebook owner than fine of €1.2bn

Social media giant’s attempts to work around previous court rulings on data transfers and privacy are seen to have fallen short

European court to decide key liability issues over data breach but question mark hangs over HSE liability for ‘non-material’ damage such as stress

Government plans to equip gardaí with body-worn cameras would mean pervasive monitoring of the public without knowledge or consent

Derry firm Evide warns clients about possibility of sensitive information being leaked online

Meta alleges the decision was reached in breach of various articles of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU

The ECB must navigate the controversial world of digital currency, with concerns about privacy certain to be writ large

Process was intended to be completed early in the new year

Spring-cleaning your tech will bring order to your digital chaos

Interview: Professor Shoshanna Zuboff, who predicted that computers would change our lives, demands a right to sanctuary from data ‘theft’