:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/L4M6ERT5ERAXJGKCOYJD3PHEB4.jpg "Karlin Lillington: Facial recognition: The EU is tilting alarmingly towards normalising sneakier mass surveillance")
As the Government’s draft facial recognition technology (FRT) Bill meanders through the political process, serious global questions about this pervasive population surveillance tool continue to mount....
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/X5KX7BM5DI6JR6IHNPCPYQVPTU.jpg "Meta pauses AI plans for Europe after Irish regulator request")
Meta will not launch its Meta AI models in Europe for now after the State’s Data Protection Commission told it to delay its plan to harness...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/C5A3MQKLXLN5U5ZGENNM4DZD7E.jpg "Meta wants to use your Facebook and Instagram data to train AI – here’s how to stop it")
Instagram and Facebook owner Meta recently began notifying European users that it plans to start using some of their personal data to train its artificial intelligence...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/R4HYDJDK7AOYXFXYL75ACMGLYQ.jpg "Wicklow County Council refers itself to data watchdog after dashcams recorded firefighters for years")
Wicklow County Council has referred itself to the Data Protection Commissioner after confirming that dashcams fitted to the cabs of appliances based in four stations were...
:quality(70):focal(926x430:936x440)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/R4HYDJDK7AOYXFXYL75ACMGLYQ.jpg "TikTok video revealing access to medical records spurs inquiry into HSE data breaches")
Regulators have opened an investigation into two Health Service Executive (HSE) data breaches after videos posted online showed people accessing medical records which were supposed to...