Irish suicide text line user data not fed to US for-profit company, 50808 confirmsThe HSE-funded Irish arm of Crisis Text Line said it was not impacted by a recent scandal which saw anonymised data of US users to suicide hotline used in for-profit enterprise
More than €1bn in fines issued to tech giants by EU data regulators last yearIrish DPC Deputy Commissioner said a record fine against WhatsApp in 2021 was just the beginning and that many other investigations would come to fruition in 2022
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
Schrems reports DPC to Austrian authorities over Facebook complaint documentsAustrian privacy activist was told the DPC could not provide him with certain documents unless he agreed legally not to disseminate them publicly
Budget 2022 visualised: How your money will be spent Health and social protection continues to dominate, while transport spend is reduced
EU privacy regulator concerned vaccine passes could cause discrimination Using digital green certificates to allow vaccinated people to enter pubs and restaurants ‘may lead to unintended consequences’ and be a ‘risk to the fundamental rights of EU citizens,’ according to the EDPB
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
Maxed out: Why Ireland is at the centre of a ‘Kafkaesque’ row over your dataActivist Max Schrems has accused Helen Dixon of failing to hold Big Tech to account over the handling of EU citizens’ data. But the Data Protection Commissioner insists that her office is taking action
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
Analysis: Twice as many people believe they had Covid-19 compared to confirmed casesWhile the official tally of cases in Ireland has passed the 200,000 mark, a new survey suggests the real figure could be double that
Data Protection Commissioner to regulate TikTok for all of EuropeThe DPC told the government in a pre-budget submission that it faced an uphill battle in its regulation of tech giants based in Ireland