An off-duty member of the National Ambulance Service who saved the life of a teenage girl while on holidays is urging more people to learn CPR.

Regulators in the US and Europe are examining whether Google, Apple, and Amazon are violating privacy by employing human reviewers to listen to voice commands recorded by digital assistants.

British Airways-owner IAG is facing a record $230m (€205m) fine for the theft of data from 500,000 customers from its website last year under tough new data-protection rules policed by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Ireland has one of the lowest rates of any European country for carrying out operations on a condition that is one of the main causes of impaired vision.

A mother whose newborn baby boy was forcibly removed from her at a maternity hospital due to serious concerns of possible risk to his health and life if she left hospital with him is claiming damages against the Child and Family Agency.

Latest: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to give evidence before the parliamentary inquiry into fake news after revelations about users' personal data held by British firm Cambridge Analytica (CA).

The UK Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has breached the anonymity of an alleged sexual offences victim by publishing their name on its website.

If imitation is flattery, then Zelda had better take a restraining order against Oceanhorn, writes Ronan Jennings. 

A nursing home in the North has been fined after a data breach relating to sensitive details about patients and staff, connected to the theft of a computer.

Ireland’s largest-ever celebration of Mozart’s music has kicked off in Kilkenny.

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Google has been ordered to remove nine links to news stories by Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the “right to be forgotten” ruling.

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NEXT week, The Irish Chamber Orchestra will present ‘Joyeaux Noël’, a programme of French festive music, at two of the country’s most historic cathedrals, St Fin Barre’s in Cork, and St Mary’s in Limerick.

A Russian website is allowing people to log on and use our own webcams to spy on us.

Facebook is being investigated to assess whether an experiment in which it manipulated users’ news feeds to study the effect it had on moods might have broken data protection laws.

Facebook is being investigated in Britain to assess whether an experiment in which it manipulated users’ news feeds to study the effect it had on moods might have broken data protection laws, it has been reported.

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A judge who refused to grant the State an interim care order (ICO) for a newborn baby heard that the HSE had placed an older sibling with the mother’s brother against whom credible allegations of sexual abuse had been made.

The Department of Justice in the North has been fined almost £150,000 (€180,568) for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act after confidential documents were found inside a filing cabinet sold in an auction.

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Google, the world’s largest search engine, has been given 35 days by Britain’s data protection watchdog to remove wireless network data collected by its cars for its Street View service in the country.

France is giving Google three months to be more open about the data it collects from users – or be fined.

Gaming giant Sony has been fined £250,000 by the data watchdog for a breach that compromised the personal information of millions of PlayStation users.

Google has been ordered to surrender personal data collected from unsecured UK wifi networks amid claims it “appears” to have breached a deal to delete the material.

GLOBAL demand for coffee is set to keep climbing, and even a doubling in the cost of the commodity over the last 12 months has failed to quench consumers’ thirst.

Google was responsible for a “significant breach” of the Data Protection Act, Britain's Information Commissioner said today.

A MUSIC initiative in primary schools in Limerick’s regeneration areas will break new ground today when a CD will be released featuring children from Galvone national school in Kennedy Park, and the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO).

CAMPAIGNERS yesterday criticised a new website that allows anyone in Europe to monitor commercial CCTV footage live online as a “Stasi-style citizen spy game” that should be banned.

The North’s freedom of information chief has been suspended, it was announced today.

A LIMERICK church where the last Mass was celebrated 12 months ago, will over the coming days help the city rejoice in the music of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO).

LOVERS of Colombian coffee could face a hike in the cost of their daily caffeine fix as poor crops and strong demand turn up the heat on price, it was revealed.

Scores of pictures were removed from Google’s controversial new mapping application today after a glut of privacy complaints.

ORCHESTRAL music and children’s songs yesterday swept through a school in the heart of one of Limerick’s designated regeneration areas.

GARDAÍ yesterday prevented a small group of student protesters trying to barge their way into the Irish Chamber Orchestra building as it was being officially opened at the University of Limerick campus yesterday.

THE Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) based at the University of Limerick is preparing to move into a new €3.4 million studio building, on campus, later this month.

Marks & Spencer broke data protection rules by failing to secure the personal details of some 26,000 employees, a UK privacy watchdog said today.

Internet blogs risk leaving a permanent electronic footprint which could be seen by future employers, the UK's privacy watchdog warned today.

An official investigation has been launched into alleged customer privacy breaches by Barclays Bank, the UK's Information Commissioner’s Office said today.

Fears that cups of coffee could become more expensive grew today after bean prices soared to a fresh seven-year high.