#irish-data-protection

#irish-data-protection

Cork-based indigenous pharmaceutical manufacturing companies have said that they are now having to establish new plants in the United States in a bid to protect jobs at home, in light of Donald Trump's ongoing aggressive tariff policy.

Geofencing allows the government to draw a virtual fence around a geographic area where a crime was committed. After that, the government seeks a warrant not to search a home or office, but to require a tech company to search its data to identify any of its millions of users who were within the geofence line at the time of the crime.

The electoral commission has called on Government to make improvements to the administration of future elections, including steps to ensure its staffs' capacity to 'freely observe the voting process' is not impeded.

We are aware of the arrest of an individual under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, but as this is a live police investigation we are unable to comment further.

It comes following the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded last November by a botnet - or hacking group - known as Kimwolf Irish households that possess a "dodgy box" or other unregulated streaming devices that they are vulnerable to cyber attacks increasingly nefarious in nature, Grant Thornton has warned. The professional services firm has said that everyday home technology from Android streaming boxes to TV streaming devices are susceptible to being compromised by sophisticated, large-scale hacking efforts by cyber criminals.