Use of Big Data to Predict Human Behaviour Demands Regulation

Privacy and data protection legislation worldwide is ill-equipped to deal with the Big Data revolution, according to Professor Maeve McDonagh from UCC’s School of Law. “Big Data is now being used to predict individual behaviour and its use for this purpose can result in decisions being made about people based on that analysis, which limits…

Epipens on UCC Campus ‘A World First’

It is a ‘world first’ as the government has legislated to allow trained members of the public to administer life-saving medicines in emergency situations. New laws announced on Thursday by the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar have been warmly welcomed by two UCC health experts. Professor Jonathan Hourihane, a leading allergy expert and head of…