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2 May 2018

Opinion: Harvesting the personal data of children for marketing purposes is repugnant

WITH NEW EU-WIDE data protection laws on the way, there has been a lot of discussion about the digital age of consent, but not a lot of clarity on what it actually is. Despite what you may have heard, it’s not about putting age restrictions on access to the internet, or limiting young people’s expression […]

Facebook should notify Irish people whose profiles affected by data breach

The Social Democrats today called on Facebook to notify Irish holders of up to 45,000 Facebook profiles if their data was potentially affected by the Cambridge Analytica data breach. Fingal Co Councillor Cian O’Callaghan said: “More than two in three Irish adults are on Facebook. Any of these people must be today asking themselves if […]

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil secrecy over Facebook spending is two-faced

The Social Democrats have accused Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil of two-facedness over the refusal of both parties to disclose the amount they are spending on Facebook advertising. The party’s co-leader Róisín Shortall TD said today: “Given the backdrop of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the furore over the Strategic Communications Unit, it is inexcusable […]