Lawyer Simon McGarr blogs at Tuppenceworth.ie, mostly about current affairs in general, and digital rights in particular. In the light of recent controversy about Uber, some people have chosen to boycott the service, and delete the app from their phones. But as Simon points out, while you may choose to forget Uber, they may not necessarily forget about you, unless […]
New survey results show a large majority of Irish people say their data stored online should enjoy strong privacy protections, and they expect the government to stand up for Irish law when other countries disagree. In addition to finding that 87% believe in privacy parity for physical and digital information other findings show that: 89% […]
Séamus Carroll is Head of the Data Protection Unit in the Department of Justice and Equality. He recently addressed a conference on cybersecurity organised by AON Insurance and held at the Convention Centre Dublin, on the subject of the new standards for data protection which are currently being discussed at EU level. Current legislation is in need […]
Irish companies were today warned of the increasing risk of cyber security to their businesses at a conference held by Aon Risk Solutions, at The Convention Centre in Dublin. The company revealed its latest research on the subject, saying that it highlights severe vulnerabilities among companies operating in Ireland. Data based on inputs from over 1200 […]
Paddy Power, the bookmaker, has written to almost 650,000 users of its online service advising them that their personal data was breached in a malicious incident in 2010. They say that they had been satisfied at the time that “no financial information or customer passwords had been put at risk” and they did not make the incident public on […]
So you’ve heard about the new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as .london and .clarehurling? OK, I made that one up – but you get the idea. ICANN received applications for almost 2000 new gTLDs and over 300 have been delegated so far. You may also have heard that availability of these new domain names from EU registrars was […]
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 […]
The Irish Data Protection Commisioner is investigating Adobe in relation to last year’s theft of source code and data from 38 million customers. PC Pro Magazine reports that this is in response to complaints from UK residents about spam being received on email accounts that had been exclusively used for Adobe registration. GigaOm points out […]
The Irish Times is reporting that the Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has confirmed that the compromised credit card data at LoyaltyBuild had been stored in an unencrypted form – together with the 3-digit CVV number from the backs of the cards. When first reporting the breach last week, the company had claimed that all […]
