Since the middle of 2018, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has effectively been the European regulator of all the big tech companies with headquarters in Dublin. But questions about how well
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The HSE s Covid-19 tracker app: respondents were unhappy about the lack of communication of conclusive data showing the efficiency of the app
Analysis: a new study has found that Irish attitudes to privacy and the Covid-19 tracker app have changed during the pandemic
Contact tracing apps used in tracing and mitigating the spread of Covid-19 have sparked discussions and controversies worldwide. The major concerns in relation to these apps are around privacy. Ireland was praised for the design of its Covid tracker app, and the transparency through which NearForm and the HSE addressed privacy issues. The HSE provided a considerable amount of information on their website regarding the data processing, and made the data protection impact assessment of the app available to the public. The source code of the app is also available as open source and can be examined.
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Pichai,
In the past few years, you have pioneered important transparency tools to help your platform users understand, learn about and contextualise the political advertising they see. We agree that advertiser verification processes and ad repositories are key safeguards against online manipulation and misinformation. However, we are saddened to observe that these benefits have not been equally distributed among your global user base.
Each platform operates fluctuating and often widely differing transparency standards for different countries. While some users benefit from seeing political advertising in an ad repository, others do not. Where some users are offered detailed information about a political ad, others are not. There are no legitimate or otherwise publicly disclosed reasons justifying this difference in treatment.