Ireland

As of January 22, 2019, Google will change its terms of use and privacy rules for users in the European Union and various European countries outside the Union. Google Ireland will be officially responsible for the data of European users…

Customers from six different French banks can use Google Pay from Tuesday. With a number of French online services and shops it is also possible to use the payment service. Samsung Pay and Apple Pay are already available in the country.…

Eindhoven University of Technology is getting a production line for photonic integrated circuits. Research facilities and companies will have access to the facility, which should significantly reduce production and R&D costs.The…

The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has reprimanded LinkedIn US for processing 18 million non-users' email addresses in violation of privacy rules, in order to reach them through Facebook ads.LinkedIn US processed Europeans' email…

The German privacy watchdog of the state of Hamburg has dropped a case against Facebook announced in May due to statute of limitations. The case was brought after the Cambridge Analytica scandal came to light.Heise writes that Johannes…

The Irish privacy watchdog, or the Data Protection Commission Ireland, has revealed that less than 10 percent of users affected by the recent attack on Facebook are EU citizens. That would equate to a maximum of 5 million users.The…

Intel is investing an additional $1 billion in its 14nm production to meet the demand for processors. Due to the shortages, the prices of many Intel Core CPUs have risen sharply in recent times.Bob Swan, Intel's CFO and interim CEO,…

Ireland has received the entire tax arrears of 13.1 billion euros and 1.2 billion euros in interest from Apple. The iPhone maker had to pay that from the EU. It is not yet certain whether Ireland will keep the money, as both the country…

Facebook is investing 1.4 billion Singapore dollars, converted about 874 million euros, in the construction of a data center in Singapore. It is the social network's first own data center in Asia.It is a data center with a surface area of…

Microsoft no longer allows new customers to a service created in 2015. This made it possible to use German data centers, which Microsoft had managed by a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom in order to shield data.Microsoft reports that those…