In case you forgot that today was polling day in both the local and EU elections, Google’s got your back: Today’s Google doodle is a gentle reminder that the EU elections are on, with polling having opened over the last couple of days depending on which country you are in. All the media outlets will […]
European citizens have the right to be forgotten, according to the Court of Justice of the European Union which ruled today that search engines must remove links relating to individuals, under certain circumstances, if requested to do so by the individuals themselves. The case centres on the definition of a search engine’s role under EU data privacy law. Google had […]
Tá sé seo ar fheabhas! After 10 years of Polish EU membership, which has seen many Poles make their homes in Ireland, staff at the Polish embassy express their gratitude using the Irish language. Related articles Polish say ‘go raibh maith agat’ for ten years of an Irish welcome Polish say go raibh maith […]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) announced this morning its ruling with respect to the Data Retention Directive. And they’ve ruled – “The Court of Justice declares the Data Retention Directive to be invalid” Here’s the release: [spiderpowa-pdf src=”https://technology.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ecj-dr-ruling.pdf”]The Court of Justice declares the Data Retention Directive to be invalid So what does that mean? […]
Ken Hansen is CEO of Co.com, a new Second Level Domain Registry with an interesting proposition. As Ken explains it, there are many businesses which missed out on the first wave of .com domains, yet still wish to have a memorable domain name in the .com namespace. Co.com is one way to do that. Ken […]
Michele joins Conn for a quick podcast this week (25:12, 15MB, MP3). He’s upset: he explains why ICANN’s disregard for EU law is discriminating against EU registrars. We talk about about The Day We Fight Back: a new global campaign against online surveillance which kicks off on Tuesday. And we look back on a week […]
Over on the Blacknight blog, Michele Neylon has smoke coming out of his ears. Here’s a picture: He’s upset because he wants to sell the shiny new generic top level domains (gTLDs) that are coming on stream, but ICANN won’t let him, or any other EU domain registrar. Before you can sell new gTLDs, says […]
Digital Rights Ireland is a voluntary organisation campaigning for Digital Rights in Ireland and Europe, in particular in the areas of Digital Privacy, Web Blocking and Copyright Reform. It has had some notable success in 2013, in particular on the EU Data Retention Directive, but following a failed submission to the court in a web-blocking […]
“Everybody in this country should learn how to programme a computer”, says Steve Jobs in this video from Code.org, a US non-profit “devoted to the vision that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn how to code”. It’s a clip from a 90s TV interview with a younger Jobs, but most […]
It’s Europe Code Week, and Alex shows us around the Citywise Coding Club in Dublin. This is really watchable and well-made by Galway Education Centre and gives a great insight into what goes on at coding clubs and Coder Dojos around the country. And Alex is a great presenter and interviewer. Well done! EU Code […]
