Big Tech may not get everything it wants from Trump
Incoming US president will not be all the tech industry is hoping for once he is in power
It turns out your air fryer might be listening, sending data to China
UK consumer protection advocates Which? found that certain air fryers gather personal data that has little or no relevance to the functioning of the product
Drama Drives Interest: The Web Summit Story – The improbable, fascinating, only-in-Ireland tale of Paddy Cosgrave
Catherine Sanz’s book focuses on the highest-profile founder of the most compelling Irish business drama of the past 15 years
Is the Republic’s online safety code up to the task?
Reconciling the GDPR with the AI Act poses issues, but I think they are minor compared to the hard problem of making the new safety code work in any realistic way
Mary O’Rourke laid the critical groundwork for State’s success in tech
No other minister would have had the interest, much less stubbornness, to push through the first undersea fibreoptic cable deal
Do you think online polls are rigged?
Scepticism is justified as these days the online variety is the one almost certain to be wearing the data dunce cap
Everyone seems happy with Apple tax case outcome
The €13bn tax case, while unwelcome, always related to times long past with no real impact for any of the players going forward
Do Musk’s Teslas still fit in liberal California?
If Elon Musk has hurt his car company’s brand, it’s not showing yet
Riots, online safety and rights prove awkward bedfellows
Legislators are struggling to balance protection on the one hand and with the need to avoid disproportionate restriction on the other
Interconnected tech sector paying the price for lack of real innovation
Intel’s struggles, doubts over potential of AI and Google’s humbling in federal antitrust suit all point to a potential inflection point for the sector
Trump’s pitch for ‘crypto-president’ is a merger of the bizarre
Facts and truth can be fluid both in the world of the bitcoin bros and the former president Trump
Facial recognition: We’re tilting alarmingly towards normalising sneakier mass surveillance
We have yet to be given clear reasons why we need facial recognition technology even though a Bill relating to it is meandering through our political process
GDPR isn’t the problem, Big Tech and governments are the issue
Too many vested interests have undermined the effectiveness of the EU’s key data protection law
EU making ill-judged move towards mass digital surveillance
Step intended to combat child sexual abuse online has been widely condemned as ineffective and in breach of fundamental rights