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…
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…
UCC President Michael Murphy has stated that he would actually encourage some students to drop out of college in pursuit of setting up their own businesses. Murphy said if students could benefit society through the creation of products, services and technologies and create jobs then he would encourage them to drop out. He continued that…