The guidance came to all government departments yesterday from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) after weeks of scrutiny around the app's collection of data

"We do not value care work. People talk about the 'system being broken', but the system was never fixed in the first place. The career-care conundrum exists because the workplace is designed for you to work like you do not have a family, and raise a family like you don't work"

TikTok’s troubles continue to mount.

A consistent level of basic security policy across all government departments should be expected — this would save money and reduce the risk of a data breach, writes Simon Woodworth

Taoiseach says mortgage rate hikes should be matched by similar rise in rate of interest for deposits

TikTok ban

Ronan Murphy, founder and executive chairman of cybersecurity company, Smarttech, believes the Government should follow the lead of the European Commission

According to Politico, all employees were instructed to delete TikTok from their work devices

They included comparing LGBTQ+ people to 'paedophiles', a call to 'burn all gays' and for the 'trans lobby' to be 'killed'

An 'enormous amount of misinformation' is circulating online, exacerbating hostility towards migrants and asylum seekers in Ireland

In one case, a man whose face was shown on the app along with untrue allegations that he had sexually assaulted people at a Dublin children's hospital was later brutally attacked

Chinese technology

His videos have been watched 11.6bn times, with Irish boys making up a portion of those views. But what influence is rape apologist Andrew Tate having in Irish schoolyards? Jennifer Horgan investigates

Creators of Fortnite fined over child privacy rules

'He fought a tough fight both in the law and in his recent illness': Richard Grogan's wife Mary and son James speak movingly of the much-loved solicitor

As the tech bloodbath continues, Alan Healy looks at the implications for Ireland

Many of the world’s largest firms including Google owner Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook owner Meta and Microsoft have reported results that largely fell short of projections, shaving hundreds of millions to billions of dollars from their market valuations

Harvesting data is the norm for social media apps, but the question that many have is where it goes and who has access to it

Last year, two-thirds of the EU population aged between 16 and 74 bought or ordered goods or services over the internet.

The company’s secret sauce is what populates its For You Page, which predicts the videos that will pique a viewer’s interest

See the country crooner's first video here

Elon Musk has a penchant for the letter “X. ” He calls his son with the singer Grimes, whose actual name is a collection of letters and symbols, “X. ” He named the company he created to buy Twitter “X Holdings.

Simon Harris, Clare Daly, Michael Healy-Rae, Richard O'Donoghue, Neale Richmond, and Mick Wallace among biggest users of social media platform at Leinster House

The CyberSafetyKids annual report published yesterday is welcome, because it offers precise details for many people’s unease about young children and their online activity.

China’s internet giants, including Tencent and TikTok-owner ByteDance, have shared details of their prized algorithms with Beijing for the first time, an unprecedented move aimed at curbing data abuse that may end up compromising closely guarded ...

I am certain that the overwhelming majority of people on the island of Ireland are appalled at the statement made by Sinn Féin first minister-designate Michelle O’Neill in her recent BBC interview in which she stated there was no alternative to the ...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian criticised Ms Truss’ comments, saying that British politicians that making irresponsible remarks, including hyping-up the so-called 'China threat'.

An influencer brands unsolicited and unpermitted attention as 'kindness' — and, all the while, big tech is making money from it

“There was a point where I was like ‘this is the end’.” 

The school has experienced problems with "a small minority" of students in younger years bullying other students with videos posted under fake profiles.

Facebook has 1.929bn daily users, but the first fall in numbers in 18 years triggered a share price collapse that wiped the equivalent of Portugal’s GDP off its value, writes Dan Milmo.

Social media platform TikTok is failing to attach links to trustworthy sources of information to many videos on its platform which contain misinformation on Covid-19 and vaccines, according to new research.

50 minutes of decent telly: you learn a bit, you laugh a bit, and move on to the next thing. The main thing I learned is that I’m too old for TikTok

Today's CyberSafeKids Ireland report reveals the extent of children socialising with strangers, and recommends action to ensure their safety

Number of incidents have prompted concerns about privacy and safety policies

Fianna Fáil senator Malcolm Byrne said he has “grave concerns” about the use of artificial intelligence by TikTok and there are fewer than 200 people in the DPC responsible for regulating the data of up to half a billion people

Potentially deadly farm machinery ‘pranks’ filmed and posted to social media platform TikTok have been condemned by Agriculture Minister Michael Creed as “idiotic” and “unacceptable”.

People who operate farm machinery are being urged not to endanger their lives and the lives of others for the sake of social media.

On a similar note, last week I had several requests for store cupboard recipes — now that we have more time on our hands we’ve been digging deeper, ransacking our cupboards and finding some long forgotten, weird and wonderful stuff.