What a night at the Google family home might look likeCompany’s smart devices chief says we should tell visitors about gadgets in our housesThu Oct 24 2019 - 05:30
Government’s 'underfunding' of data watchdog is bumbling and riskyNet Results: Multinationals worry about perception of petty vengeance over public services cardThu Oct 17 2019 - 05:30
Google’s children’s internet safety grant a bad jokeLast month’s $170 million fine was a paltry sum for a company the size of GoogleThu Sept 26 2019 - 05:30
Festivals are fun, but what about the carbon footprint?Net Results: The Galway Jazz Festival is hoping to become a blueprint for other major eventsThu Sept 19 2019 - 05:30
US antitrust action has tech companies sweating on their home turfNet Results: EU has issued fines now US public’s anti-tech mood spurs official actionThu Sept 12 2019 - 05:30
Public Services Card debacle headed for legal slapdown at our expenseIreland has been here before, and it seems the State took nothing from the lessonThu Sept 05 2019 - 05:30
Net Results: Sci-fi, spandex and the wonders of WorldConScience fiction convention in Dublin zapped visitors with lively and intense intelligenceThu Aug 29 2019 - 05:30
State will not learn from Public Services Card fiascoNet Results: Apart from data abuse, card cost €60m but detected just €2m in welfare fraudThu Aug 22 2019 - 05:30
Airport facial scanning: Dystopian nightmare rebranded as travel perkNet Results: The common defence that scans are optional is disingenuousThu Aug 15 2019 - 05:30
Hosting companies back in spotlight after US latest mass killingsNet Results: We are wrong to make internet corporations society’s de facto censorsThu Aug 08 2019 - 05:30
Grave concerns about the Public Services Card are being ignoredNet Results: A report on this discriminatory card needs to be made publicThu Aug 01 2019 - 05:30
The gig economy: anathema to integral human development?Net Results: A theological perspective at a recent conference was surprisingly illuminatingThu Jul 25 2019 - 05:30
Moon landing was almost comically low-tech – by today’s standardsKarlin Lillington: Watching this historic moment as child was wondrous and inspiringThu Jul 18 2019 - 05:30
Schrems II will seriously stress test EU’s data privacy rulesNet Results: US has made wrong assumptions about European data protection lawsThu Jul 11 2019 - 18:06
How Silicon Docks is killing DublinNet Results: We need to talk about the kind of city we want before more tech firms arriveThu Jul 04 2019 - 07:24
Holographs and ‘warm technology’: considering the future of AIAt the Kultursumposium in Weimar, many fascinating questions were explored about robots and their impact on human relationshipsThu Jun 27 2019 - 05:30
Libra is warped hybrid that seeks to consolidate Facebook’s vast powerNet Results: Cryptocurrency is strongest argument yet for enforcing antitrust lawsThu Jun 20 2019 - 05:30
Irish approach to broadband was wiser in 1998 than it is nowNet Results: State ultimately failed to fund the excellent proposals of Mary O’RourkeThu Jun 13 2019 - 05:30
Why the Internet of Things is becoming scaryThermostats, air conditioning, baby monitors and door locks all disabledThu Jun 06 2019 - 10:53
Lessons from WhatsApp hack: we are all victims of global spyware industryNet Results: Developer of Pegasus spyware says its clients are governments and state agenciesThu May 16 2019 - 05:30
Fake views: the trouble with some Amazon ‘customers’Net Results: Consumers are being duped and the practice is helping Amazon’s bottom lineThu May 09 2019 - 05:30
‘Disruption’ has become the most dangerous of tech conceptsNet Results: The term has taken on an ever more aggressive meaning for monopolistic firmsThu May 02 2019 - 05:30
Social media ban deepens sense of isolation in times of tragedyNet Results: Terrorism is no excuse for shutting down social mediaThu Apr 25 2019 - 05:30
Forcing tech giants to share data not the way to goData interoperability and portability could level the digital playing field for smaller firmsThu Apr 18 2019 - 05:30
Debate required around company’s plan to use Irish DNA for private profitPrivate Irish genome research company GMI wants to gather DNA from 400,000 Irish peopleThu Apr 11 2019 - 05:30
Apple’s latest plans should worry us allKarlin Lillington: Tech firm’s new ventures show the relentless overreach of the Big FiveThu Mar 28 2019 - 05:30
State websites are aiding a disgraceful silent surveillanceKarlin Lillington: Public sector sites are unintentionally allowing firms to track our dataThu Mar 21 2019 - 05:45
The world will be watching our dealings with multinationalsNet Results: Irish politicians need to be above board in the face of huge lobbying powerThu Mar 07 2019 - 05:30
Staff put Microsoft in ethical hot seat over army contractNet Results: Firm has been an ethics leader in big tech, but has some soul-searching to doThu Feb 28 2019 - 05:30
US should fix its own lax tax system before attacking IrelandKarlin Lillington: Loopholes in legislation mean firms pay fraction of Trump’s 21% rateThu Feb 21 2019 - 05:45
German ruling on Facebook data collection could finally protect consumersNet Results: Ruling would give power to users to opt out of invisible mega-harvest of dataThu Feb 14 2019 - 05:30
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshanna Zuboff: Data disasterZuboff: surveillance by private firms is a crisis as serious as climate changeSat Feb 02 2019 - 07:00
Nothing like new technology to make some of us feel oldKarlin Lillington: Remember command lines, floppy disks and dial-up modems?Thu Jan 24 2019 - 05:30
Are you watching your TV – or is your TV watching you?Net Results: There’s a reason why modern, feature-packed smart TVs are so cheapThu Jan 17 2019 - 05:30
Want to enter a Kafkaesque nightmare? Try using your Public Services CardIllogical, confusing: PSC may serve the State’s data acquisition whims, but it fails the citizenThu Jan 10 2019 - 05:30
The penny has finally dropped about the intrusions of big techNet Results: The public is wising up to data gathering abuses, but that’s just the startWed Jan 02 2019 - 17:00
Data privacy: failing to address critical issues 20 years onWhile EU now has GDPR, little has changed in US on data privacy and data protectionThu Dec 20 2018 - 05:30
How the Mother of All Demos portrayed the power of possibilitiesNet Results: Five decades after Douglas Englebart clicked the first mouse, it is still a gobsmacking thing of wonderThu Dec 13 2018 - 05:49
In Silicon Valley, burning anger against big tech is palpableNet Results: For many years Palo Alto natives relished being tech’s ground zero. No longerThu Dec 06 2018 - 06:00
Don’t buy online DNA ancestry tests. You are the real productNet Results: The sale of DNA databases for private research is of huge ethical concernThu Nov 29 2018 - 05:00
Microsoft president says defending democracy is a big cybersecurity challenge‘What we’re seeing is technology tools that some people . . . are turning into weapons’Sat Nov 24 2018 - 05:59
If Facebook’s top executives can’t control it, how can Ireland?Net Results: The State says it intends to regulate Facebook as needed. Sigh. Go on, tryThu Nov 22 2018 - 05:00
Why society isn’t ready for the high-tech future that is fast approachingExperts believe the start of mind and physical enhancements is a matter of years awayThu Nov 15 2018 - 05:00
Have we reached a tipping point towards a better internet?Tim Berners-Lee may feel he created a monster, but there are grounds for optimismThu Nov 08 2018 - 05:00
When having a strong password can mean life or deathNet Results: UN award for Irish human rights group Front Line Defenders is well-deservedThu Nov 01 2018 - 05:30
Big tech’s homelessness row in San Francisco offers lesson for DublinKarlin Lillington: Billionaires are opposing taxation to help those they have displacedThu Oct 25 2018 - 05:00
Paul Allen: The reclusive billionaire who changed the tech worldKarlin Lillington: Microsoft co-founder was part of the firm’s nerdish yin and yangThu Oct 18 2018 - 05:00
Ginni Rometty: Leading slimmed-down Big Blue into the cloudThe head of IBM challenges people to judge her by her actions, which are manyFri Oct 12 2018 - 05:12
I never expected to be the target of porn blackmailKarlin Lillington: Although I knew the specific threat was a bluff, I had wider worriesThu Oct 11 2018 - 05:00
Could a €1.6bn fine make Facebook finally care about users’ privacy rights?Massive data breach made headlines but Facebook’s trade in user data is as scandalousThu Oct 04 2018 - 05:00
