Irish Examiner view: Tech firms not above the law

Creators of Fortnite fined over child privacy rules

Inside the Arthur Ashe tennis stadium in New York for the first-ever Fortnite World Cup last year.

We have now reached an ominous point in our relation with the tech sector megacompanies, from Google to Meta and on to Twitter and Tiktok.

No matter how egregious the offences they commit, whether those relate to unapproved location tracking or the harvesting of users’ private data, we seem to accept those offences as a hidden cost of connectedness.