FACEBOOK Tsar Mark Zuckerberg is currently suffering from repetitive strain injury in his wrist, caused by having to ceaselessly click away ads for suits, barber shops, toothpaste and anxiety pills that have cluttered up his newsfeed since his congressional hearing this week. Zuckerberg was brought in front of congress amid the fallout of the Cambridge… Read more »
AS A growing number of people become more and more concerned about, and aware of how tech companies, online publishers, news organisations and websites use their personal data, there has never been a more important time to decide whether it is pronounced ‘data’ or ‘data’. While some members of the public, concerned with how Facebook… Read more »
THE IRISH Data Commissioner’s office has been a hive of activity in recent days trying to grapple with the fallout from the misuse of Facebook users’ data by Cambridge Analytica among other firms, which now includes 45,000 Irish users. With leading tech giants making Ireland home to its European and Middle Eastern operations many privacy… Read more »
FOLLOWING months of pressure from some of the world’s leading nations and security agencies, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally gotten to the bottom of the social network’s problem; a rusty old wrench stuck wedged in one of its main servers. “It must have been in there since 2010,” the 31-year-old posted, with a picture of the… Read more »
Dear Internet user, Please read the following open letter carefully, as this is the only correspondence you’re getting from us. Look at the state of you there you pathetic blubbering mess, worrying about what your technological devices are doing to your life; what information we’re taking, what conversations we’re listening in on, what filth you’ve been… Read more »
SENSING a huge rush of relief cascade over her entire body, one local woman is down to just 47 apps currently operating on her phone which uses her data in ways that would shock her to her core, following her decision to delete Facebook. Traipsing in the wake of the thousands of people who took… Read more »