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EFFECTIVE TODAY, THE private data of roughly 240 million active Twitter users has become an Irish problem.
The social networking giant has revealed in a blogpost that The Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has officially taken on its privacy-care duties.
“If you live outside the United States, our services are now provided to you by Twitter International Company, our company based in Dublin, Ireland,” reads the post.
Twitter International Company will be responsible for handling your account information under Irish privacy and data protection law.
This means, that while Twitter users’ (outside the US) privacy will henceforth be handled by Twitter International Company, based in Dublin, the standards and laws by which Twitter will be held accountable are Irish.
Or, to put it another way, if Twitter users anywhere in the world outside America have an issue with how the social network is handling their personal data, their first port of call will be with the ODPC.
Ireland’s current commissioner is Helen Dixon who took over the role in September 2014.
Roughly 77% of Twitter’s 302 million active users are based outside America.
Privacy and Twitter is a thorny subject, one which for the most part remains very much a grey area legally.
But with prosecutions for online bullying and hate speech gradually on the increase, it’s an area that is going to become more and more heavily scrutinised globally.
So, no pressure then.
The increasingly important role of Ireland’s Commissioner was acknowledged by the government in last October’s budget, with funding for the ODPC almost doubled to €3.7 million.
Last month, Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems told his court action against Facebook in Vienna that he abandoned his privacy suit in Ireland in order to avoid “the madness of the Irish courts”.
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The same newspaper that said a couple of years ago that Irish people catch pigeons on the street in traps to eat because of austerity.
Don’t we?
I catch mine in an net, Annette does some complaint though
Best way to catch pigeons is to overfeed them with bread and after hours of this you can pounce on/capture loads of them. They will just eat and eat and get too heavy to fly away, the stupid things. Hoooo HOO HOO hoo hoooo
They mixed up Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. It’s hardly a boneheaded mistake now.
I frequently see media referencing a fictitious place called “Northern” Ireland.
And the fictious notion that Dear Leader Gerry was a member of a terrorist organisation.
Exactly Jason… pure fiction spread by investigative journalists, former PIRA members, multiple security services and dogs on the street.
Who do you guys reckon will win this year’s superbowl….the Packers are looking good and Rodgers is a top notch QB but I dunno if he has that long throw threat, of course the Patriots with Tom Brady are always a good bet and the Seahawks are looking good for back to back titles…..the Cowboys and the Broncos with Romo and Manning calling the plays can’t be easily dismissed….but I still think Romo will choke just like manning did last year….
This is the “completely off topic” section….isn’t it?
I’ll be happy as long as New England don’t win.
Hah!
800 years….and stuff.
No worries NYT.. Kyrzbekistan is in the next Bond movie.
You’re ones to talk.
The Journal’s corrections log must be longer than the book of Kells.
Strange comparison. The Book of Kells is rather short.
We’re gonna get them Muslamistanis.
Now watch this drive…
Idiots! Such an obvious mistake.
Some newspapers and media mention palestine but I can’t find it on google map
You have to zoom in really close as it’s shrinking on a daily basis due to a country breaching international law.
The word palestine does not exist on the google map
Wooooosh
Palestine has never, ever, existed as a state.
So what was it called before 1948 because thats when the jews started invading or was it 58 either way what was it called?
US mainstream media is responsible for making up a hell of a lot of stuff.
Yet you reference it when it suits your f8ckd up agenda.
You mean this their f8ckd up agendas.
They cannot even get their act together with crisis actors,
http://obama793.com/2015/01/08/crisis-actors-and-their-doubles/
Whereas the state-controlled Iranian propaganda press that Frank is forever citing for his “facts” never makes anything up. Yeah right :-)
There is certainly more credibility in Iranian Press concerning Israel’s ongoing atrocities on Palestinian.
No mention of this in today;s western mainstream Media.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/08/392212/Gazans-lack-shelter-from-brutal-cold
And in the very next story, thejournal refers to randalstown as ‘ranadalstown’. Good job!
So what, its not such a big deal for a country whose previous president once said ” most of our imports come from abroad” they are not really at the races when it comes to geography with the exception of their military machine. And the people of Kyrgyzstan are not minded to change anything I’m sure.
Since when does a typo error merit an article?
They have also been caught out making up news stories too ! Check out NYT on ebola via youtube interesting video concerning the NYT !
Durka durka, Islamic Jihad.
A paragon of truth…. not NYT…it is a leftist rag
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