Tuesday 22 September 2020
A US court has said Microsoft has to hand over the data but European governments (ours included, of course) and other US companies think this would be a disaster.
…and Twitter has refused.
Judge rejected Microsoft bid concerning the provision of email information on servers in Ireland to US authorities.
The ECJ ruling is a godsend for criminals who want to scrub their record clean – and sets a worrying precedent for empowering governments to act beyond their borders.
The HSE are ‘not in a position’ to do so because of data protection issues.
Researchers from Deloitte found that personal and corporate data such as passwords and email could be retrieved, even when the phone was encrypted or “factory wiped”.
There are serious legal, ethical and philosophical challenges to protecting children in this technological age, writes Mary Aiken.
We need to start taking privacy in public places seriously, starting by not sharing images made without the subject’s consent – after all, next time, it could be you, writes Fergal Crehan.
European data protection reform could be introduced before the end of this year.
Over two-thirds of people feel they have had their privacy breached, with a rise in unsolicited emails and texts.
The survey found that almost a quarter of Irish companies have experienced multiple data breaches over the past twelve months.
The technology has been used to monitor the Chinese Army, Mexican police and drug cartels, and trade institutions inside the European Union.
If you use public wi-fi systems, you should read this.
LG admitted to the claims after a British IT consultant blogged about how his smart TV sent data even after he disabled it.
Customers are being advised to check for unusual transactions over the last month.
France and Germany have called for an agreement with the US by the end of the year to try to resolve a dispute over spying.
The message contained specific details about the young teenager’s physical and mental wellbeing and a photograph of her in hospital.
Global tech firms in Ireland bring responsibilities as well as benefits; Facebook’s base in Dublin means Irish regulators will be the forefront of new questions surrounding privacy and data protection, writes Dan Hayden.
The social network must pay $20 million after an estimated 614,000 Facebook users had their personal details appear in ads on the site.
A spokesperson said there had been “informal contact” to remind the hospital of the commissioner’s codes of practice.
Dozens of current and former staff at the former Anglo Irish Bank have been affected by the data breach.
Twitter has disclosed that the government made less than 10 requests for information about users in the first six months of this year in its latest transparency report.
PRISM has ‘woken Europe up’ to the need for strict rules.
With Snowden, Prism and national security secrets in the news, it’s clear that technology has made privacy harder to ensure. Renaat Verbruggen gives a run down of how cryptography can protect your private information.
A group of Irish online publishers say draft European laws could force users to register just to see the homepage of a website.
Billy Hawkes said that his concern might be that there would be an abuse of powers that have been granted for legitimate reasons.
Revelations in the US have started a privacy debate in recent days.
The EU’s justice commissioner says Ireland has been more committed than most to making diplomatic progress.
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
One HSE employee searched the social welfare records of their son’s girlfriend.
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know at the start of this Bank Holiday Monday.
A High Court judgement is being hailed as a landmark ruling which makes businesses legally liable for data protection breaches.
The social networking giant said it found no evidence any user data was compromised.
ComReg and the Data Protection Commissioner say because the calls came from abroad, they can take no action against them.
The attackers may have gained some access to user information.
Labour’s Phil Prendergast says the new graph search may be a breach of a citizen’s right to protect their personal data.
The Commissioner has sent letters to 80 websites requesting information on how they have met their obligations under the law since July 2011.
Max Schrems and his group, ‘Europe v Facebook’, is preparing legal action against the Irish Data Protection Commissioner over its recent audit of Facebook and its privacy policy.
The mobile phone company, which has 1.6 million customers in Ireland, says there is a “low risk to customer data privacy” and says the tape is likely to be still in an O2 building.
Column: Why has it taken so long for the DPC to investigate Shatter's Prime Time comment?
It was almost a year ago that a complaint was made about the Minister for Justice telling Prime Time about Mick Wallace being cautioned by a garda over using his mobile phone while driving, writes William Campbell.
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