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Knowledge is power: data analytics has become the key skill to have

Where there’s data there are people analysing it. Fiona Alston takes a look at the demands of having some data analyst experience in your skills arsenal

Fáilte Ireland plans to use mobile data to gather information on tourists’ movements

Tourism agency also wants to gather statistics on the Irish people leaving to holiday abroad through ‘strictly’ anonymised phone data

Civil servants told not to have work conversations with smart speakers in the room

IT policy for public servants says to avoid having meetings in the same room as Alexa or Google Home due to concerns they may record what is said and pass the information onto their parent companies

Varadkar told Facebook that Ireland was ‘working hard’ to retain control of EU tech regulation

Tánaiste assured Facebook that Ireland wanted to stay at the forefront of regulating tech firms – something the company said was a ‘vital’ issue

DPC says Schrems must clarify plans for Facebook complaint documents as matter of ‘urgency’

Solicitor’s letter issued to Schrems relates to an ongoing dispute over a privacy complaint against Facebook relating to GDPR

John Walsh: Sovereignty is not the best policy in regulating tech giants

No single member state has the capacity to deal with these Goliaths: we need the clout of an EU-wide agency

Deep tech in transition

Core banking technologies are being updated with new methodologies that bring out existing strengths

Budget 2022 visualised: How your money will be spent

Health and social protection continues to dominate, while transport spend is reduced

Mobile business: The science of where we are

Geographic data is helping retailers think their way through the pandemic

CRM: Is data driving your business?

A good customer relationship management system can help make a company’s decisions much more data-driven, but only if it’s at the heart of the business

Data storage and back-up: IT that’s fit for purpose and back on track

Faced with the March 2020 lockdown, lots of Irish companies did their best to get staff up and running remotely. But now it’s time to ask if pandemic measures are fit for purpose in the medium to long term

Data watchdog to investigate Savills over requests for financial data to view houses

The Data Protection Commission has ‘concerns’ about the estate agent’s collection of prospective buyers’ personal information to secure viewings

Analysis: Data has its uses in politics but there are also many dangers

As we look poised to follow the US and Britain in the use of data to target voters, now is the time to set the boundaries on what is politically acceptable

AI: the promise of better health through knowledge

Despite recent hiccups, the rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines indicates that when humanity puts its shoulder to the wheel complex healthcare problems can be solved

Data: store it or bin it?

With the total amount of data exploding globally, the need for fast and secure remote access to data storage along with effective back-up services is only going to become more important

Colin Murphy: Sinn Féin‘s voter database likely to be a template for the other parties

Irish politics now has a choice to either follow Sinn Féin’s ever-more sophisticated profiling of voters, or return to traditional reliance on local intelligence

Smart infrastructure: the data things are made of

Data has changed business, but can it change the physical world too? Smart infrastructure promises to rethink how everything from buildings to entire cities operate

Comment: Taking data as certain can lead to dangerous decisions

As economists and policymakers increasingly rely on data-based machine-learning and AI systems, we must be clear about its limitations

Making It Work: Forestry data firm branches into mobile technology

Treemetrics has joined forces with a Swedish app maker to launch a tool which will allow forest owners carry out their own valuations

Andrews: EU criticism of Dixon stems from jealousy of Ireland’s FDI success

The Fianna Fáil MEP has said the ‘unfair’ row over released letters shows resentment of Ireland’s privileged status with tech giants