Does the DPC have the Resources to Regulate the World?
Data Protection Commisioner's Office, Portarlington (Google Streetview) 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
Data Commisioner Confirms Credit Card Data Was Not Encrypted
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
500,000 Credit Cards Compromised at Irish Firm
The Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has sent inspectors to the offices of LoyaltyBuild in Ennis, Co. Clare, after it was revealed that the credit card data of 500,000 users in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe
Cookie Law [Podcast #55]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 55 for January 11th 2013, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. Newspaper link debacle update. Plus - the backlash against twitterphobia! Blacknight launches WhoOwns.it. Google might escape the FTC but
Lightly Salted [Podcast #25]
Serbian tech blogger and social media marketeer, Nebojsa Radovic, aka ENIAC, joins Conn and Michele as a guest on this week's podcast. Being the week that's in it, we remember a former flagship of Irish technology