Varadkar told Facebook that Ireland was ‘working hard’ to retain control of EU tech regulationTánaiste 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 giantsNo single member state has the capacity to deal with these Goliaths: we need the clout of an EU-wide agency
Deep tech in transitionCore 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 areGeographic 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 trackFaced 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 housesThe 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 dangersAs 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 partiesIrish 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 ofData 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 decisionsAs 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 technologyTreemetrics 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 successThe Fianna Fáil MEP has said the ‘unfair’ row over released letters shows resentment of Ireland’s privileged status with tech giants
Cloud computing: Data-driven, person-centredIn uncertain times, the right data centre can make all the difference
Data analytics: Reading between the linesData-aided, and even data-led, decision-making is not something for the future, it’s happening now. We look at how Irish business is crunching information
National Covid-19 biobank to be set up in the coming months Facility will help to establish which vaccines work best for which age groups and if some are more protective than others