Irish privacy watchdog calls for Facebook changes
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Most peoples perception of Ireland is the stereotypical, bumbling, backward nation that is so consistently portrayed in the media yet the one thing our nation tends to respond well to is technology. This isn't a restriction they are imposing, it's better transparency for their users. Lately I've become more and more disenfranchised with my home country yet moments like this give me faith that there are actually people in power who know what they are doing.
I think with Intel, Pfizer, ADI etc here for so long, as well as cutting-edge research from our universities, that image has come and gone. The new perception is of a yet another financially incompetent nation needing German handouts. ;)
"yet the one thing our nation tends to respond well to is technology"
I have to disagree. I think it is a miracle that we have have any hi-tech industry at all. Our telecommunications infrastructure is a joke and we are only now catching up to where we should have been 10+ years ago. The privatisation of Telecom Eireann was a huge mistake and the lack of investment in broadband for over a decade shows that sucessive governments hadn't a clue when it came to technology. And don't even get me started on our education system....