data privacy

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Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems. The case before the Court of Justice of the European Union focuses on data transfer template agreements, known as standard contractual clauses (SCCs). Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images
Schrems II will seriously stress test EU’s data privacy rules

At long last, a critical Irish data privacy case this week wended its somewhat tortuous and costly way to the Court of Justice of the European Union ((...)

We are more cynical about tech company claims, less inclined to believe their excuses or tolerate their repeated apologies. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
The penny has finally dropped about the intrusions of big tech

No matter how you look at it, 2018 was a game-changing year for data privacy, because of you, the general public. You began to ask questions and deman(...)

Max Schrems: The default for a site should be for third-party data-gathering to be turned off – “Most of the companies still have everything on.” Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty
Cultural change on privacy needed if GDPR is to work, says Max Schrems

Small companies face excessive fines under Europe’s new data privacy law. It’s not a view you would expect to hear from privacy activist Max Schrems b(...)

We already see applications of intelligent technology on our smartphones with digital assistants, machine translation and face recognition, but this is only the very start
This is the revolutionary age of machines that can understand
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  • May 25, 2018, 05:34

The industrial revolution was a major turning point in history. Until the advent of steam engine technology, economic growth and wealth-creation were (...)

Silhouette of laptop user is seen next to a screen projection of Apple logo. Apple has released a software update across all platforms to bring its services fully into line with the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules. PHOTOGRAPH: Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Apple software update puts privacy in the frontline

Apple says the objective of the EU’s new data privacy rules “align with the company’s privacy values”. The company was commenting as it releases a so(...)

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Silicon Valley, California. Facebook has confirmed it plans to create hundreds of new jobs in Ireland next year. Photograph: Suzanne Lynch
Ireland has traded jobs for managing the world’s online data

In coaxing the tech masters of the universe into opening their international headquarters in Dublin, the State wrote them a blank cheque in reputation(...)

Across Europe citizens and governments are less enraptured with tech giants such as Google and Facebook. Photograph: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Data protection: EU getting tougher on tech companies on a number of fronts

Ireland may welcome US silicon giants with open arms to its shores, but across Europe citizens and governments are less enraptured with tech giants su(...)

Personal data: focus of global attention
Data privacy battle plays out before European court

Just as surveillance and data privacy have become a focus of global attention, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is this week examining an Irish cha(...)