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Taiwan May Turn Traffic Advice App Into Massive Tracking System

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To offer social distancing advice when people head out to play on a looming long weekend Taiwan has floated the idea of... Read more

Hack Of Luscious Anime Porn Site Exposed Identities And Info Of 1.2m Users

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When users hand over their personal data, there is an expectation that this data will remain private and secure. This e... Read more

Kazakhstan Asks Internet Users To Install Controversial Security Certificate

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Privacy advocates have warned that a new security certificate for internet browsers being promoted by the Kazakhstan go... Read more

Helen Dixon Reappointed As Data Protection Commissioner For Five Years

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Helen Dixon has been reappointed as Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland for a further five-year term. Since takin... Read more

Whats Up With WhatsApp As Flaw Injects Spyware On Phones

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WhatsApp has confirmed that it has become the victim of a major attack where hackers were able to remotely install surv... Read more

Facebooks New General Counsel Is A Trump Adviser Who Helped Author Patriot Act

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Facebook has named Jennifer Newstead, a legal adviser to the US state department, as its chief lawyer. She will replace... Read more

A New Deal: Privacy Must Always Come Before Profit

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Do you sometimes feel a tremor of fear when you retrieve cash from an ATM, wondering if there is some secret recording ... Read more

After Christchurch, Technology Has Reached A Reckoning

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The viciousness of the attack that took at least 50 lives, some aged as young as three, as they peacefully went about p... Read more

World Wide Web At 30: Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Wants A Better Web

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitting his proposal for an information management system th... Read more

Whats In Store For Data Protection In 2019?

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Leo Moore has been a partner in the technology group at law firm William Fry since 2010. In that time, he has seen his ... Read more

HIQA Launches National Standard For Electronic Patient Summaries To Improve Safety

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The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is the body in Ireland tasked with setting the standards for many o... Read more

State Refuses To Release Information On Public Services Card Probe

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A request brought by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) for information regarding the investigation into the ... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: GDPR Is Here

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Max attacks: Schrems launches €7bn worth of GDPR cases in Europe Max Schrems during a visit to Dublin in 2015. Image... Read more

GDPR Chaos As Many US News Sites Temporarily Unavailable In EU

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The long-awaited GDPR deadline has finally come, but it seems to be causing some issues already for major media sites b... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: Secure Your Private Universe

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Twitter urges all 336m users to change their passwords right now Image: Shutow Alexey Leonidovich/Shutterstock Twitte... Read more

Snapchat To Change Data Retention Policy For Under-16s Ahead Of GDPR

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While GDPR is theoretically good news for the data privacy and agency of individuals in the EU, those who invest in maj... Read more

UK Parliamentary Committee To Push For Zuckerberg Testimony

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The repercussions of the Cambridge Analytica scandal are continuing to reveal themselves, weeks after the original stor... Read more

Genealogy Websites Helped Track Down Elusive Golden State Killer

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The man suspected to be the Golden State Killer (also known as the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker), Jo... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: Design Your Tomorrow

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How Fire’s Colm Lyon ignited Europe’s fintech revolution Fire CEO and Realex founder Colm Lyon. Image: Fire John ... Read more

Facebook Announces Major Transparency Initiative For Ads And Pages

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The past several weeks have been fraught for Facebook as it continues to deal with the aftermath of the Cambridge Analy... Read more