Europe's privacy rulebook does not create obstacles to taking action to curb the coronavirus epidemic, but mass tracking of people's movements and contacts using smartphone location data would represent a clear violation.
Priests have been told to come up with an alternative to the church collection basket in a bid to combat the spread of coronavirus.
In any normal week, pensioner PJ Gallagher would take the bus from his home in Baldoyle into Dublin city centre three or four times. Once in town, he does the shopping, runs a few errands or meets up with a few friends. But the threat posed by COVID-19 means that his usual routine is now...
The sad announcement of the first coronavirus death here coincides with the declaration of a global pandemic.
The white-haired mourners at the removal were of an age when you'd worry that a bad dose of literally anything might kill them, let alone an exceptionally virulent plague drifting in from the east.
A hoax call that led Prince Harry into sharing his thoughts on politics, family and the plight of some imaginary penguins exposes "huge flaws" in security in his new life outside palace walls, it is feared.
One of the immediate issues companies face with the coronavirus is getting staff to work from home for a period of days or weeks. For small firms, this might be confusing. Can a normal person set it up? Is new software needed? Are there any free, or low-cost, services that will do the job? What...
