Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon and I got together in his office on Friday for our first podcast chat of 2016 – and it’s been a busy year so far. Michele brings us up to date on his recent trips to Las Vegas and Turkey and talked about a recent spate of phishing attacks which are specifically targeting […]
The European Parliament has voted to call on EU member states to “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in recognition of his status as whistle-blower and international human rights defender”. The decision is part of a resolution passed today on the follow-up to […]
Simon McGarr is our guest on today’s podcast. He’s the solicitor representing Digital Rights Ireland, who were granted amicus curiae status in the case regarding the EU-US ‘Safe Harbour Agreement’, which the EU Court of Justice ruled invalid this week. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 21:34; 12MB; MP3. […]
If you live outside the United States and use Twitter, then from today that service is provided to you by Twitter International Company, which is based in Dublin. In its announcement last month the company made reference to EU data protection legislation and the move has been viewed as a vote of confidence in Irish […]
Last week’s Digital Rights Europe conference was a great gathering of technology, business and legal minds: thoroughly enjoyable, and productive too! If you missed it (or if you were too busy networking to catch all the presentations) DRI have made some of the presentations available on their website – and there’s more on the way. We’ve also […]
Changes to Twitter’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which will take effect on May 18, put Ireland at the centre of the social media company’s international operations. Twitter sent email to users today outlining the changes, and pointing them to a post on their support site which explains the change. If you live outside the United States, […]
Blacknight is sponsoring the inaugural Digital Rights Europe Conference, in Dublin on April 15 (and we’re giving a 50% discount on the tickets – see below!) Antóin Ó Lachtnáin is on the organising team and he joins us on today’s podcast. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 16:47; 10MB; MP3. Digital Rights Ireland is an […]
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is planning to hire 45 people which will more than double its current staff. 18 people will be recruited ‘immediately’ to staff its planned new office in Dublin. The details were confirmed by the recently appointed commissioner, Helen Dixon, in a speech to the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin. Ms […]
2014 was the year in which the loss of online privacy became a painful reality for some celebrities, as well as many not so well known victims of ‘revenge porn’. Many people believe that there’s no way to combat this kind of unwanted exposure: once intimate pictures or videos have been published there’s nothing that can be done. […]
i2Coalition, the DC-based Internet Infrastructure Coalition, has signed on to an amicus brief arguing that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York failed to properly analyze the extraterritorial application of the Stored Communications Act, in the case where it ordered Microsoft to hand over emails stored on a server in Ireland. In a legal […]
