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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Geographic data is helping retailers think their way through the pandemic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In uncertain times, the right data centre can make all the difference

Data-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

Facility will help to establish which vaccines work best for which age groups and if some are more protective than others