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Kaveh Cope-Lahooti Big Tech and Online Advertising For many years, the big tech companies (principally Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google) have dominated the online advertising sphere, through selling access to or carrying out targeted advertisements on their platforms. Nevertheless, this business model caused privacy concerns, not least for the individuals whose behaviour and – behaviourContinue reading “Online Advertising, Big Tech & the Privacy Battleground”

Kaveh Cope-Lahooti & Abhay Soorya Background Smart meters, which involve energy suppliers deploying devices that allow both customers and providers to monitor consumption and usage trends, are a core component of the move towards ‘Smart Homes’ and ‘Smart Grids’ as part of the growth of the Internet of Things. In Ireland, smart metering is aContinue reading “Privacy and security challenges with the Irish smart metering roll-out”

Kaveh Cope-Lahooti Introduction Even since before the GDPR, legitimate interests have been one of the most frequent bases that organisations have relied upon to justify processing personal data. However, the GDPR placed increased obligations and scrutiny on this practice. Particularly in industries where business models are increasingly based around the use of personal information, understandingContinue reading “Legitimate Interests: Balancing your business operations with individual rights”

Kaveh Cope-Lahooti On the 8th April, the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on AI released their Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, focusing on outlining various ethical and moral principles for ‘trustworthy AI’, including that such systems be lawful (including the data used therein), ethical (in terms of compliance with core principles and values) andContinue reading “Further regulation for AI? European Commission releases ethics guidelines”