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Just got registered with a local GP in Ireland¹ and their first email states that all their staff are “formally trained in GDPR procedures and any information you give will be used in the strictest confidence.”

Their email address is @gmail.com

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¹ This, in and of itself, is a bloody miracle these days, apparently, and only happened because it’s a new practice that’s just opening up.

#ireland #gp #doctors #gdpr #gmail #google #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming

#google #GMail #surveillancecapitalism #gdpr #ireland #peoplefarming #gp #doctors

Content warning: Northern Ireland remains without a government

#ireland #dup

All right. Speaking of small pints, after 9 hours of conference and meetings, its now time. For this. I'm in #Ireland after all.

#ireland

So you’re in Ireland and you want to order contact lenses, you say? You might stumble upon Feel Good Contacts through a search engine like DuckDuckGo as they seem to have the cheapest prices. Nice…

Until the time comes to reorder. If you’re not careful, your reorder will cost considerably more.

So what do you do?

Go back to the search engine, search for your specific brand of lenses + “cheapest” and follow the link to get the lower price.

Oh how I hate capitalism.

#contactLenses #ireland
Screenshot of earlier invoice showing that I paid €115.20 for the lenses.
Screenshot of shopping basket after hitting the reorder button. Total to pay is €162.35 (Including an additional €3.95 shipping fee that wasn’t in the original. On the interface it reads: “An Post Tracked - Free over €9999”. And that’s not a typo, it really does say €9999.)
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search, showing the Feel Good Contacts ad. Clicking through that gives you the discount.
Screenshot of the shopping basket after adding the lenses having followed the link from DuckDuckGo. Total to pay is €119.15.
#ireland #contactlenses

A warning about FeelGood Contacts (feelgoodcontacts.ie) if you’re in Ireland and wear contact lenses: do NOT turn on their “auto-replenish” feature.

Just got a notification that they were about to charge me €148.05 for two 90-day boxes of lenses. That felt steep. So I opened an incognito browser and checked their site via an ad on Google. Lo and behold, I was offered 30-day boxes at €19.20 (so €115.20 for the equivalent amount… or €32.85 cheaper).

Goodness I fucking hate capitalism.

#ireland
FeelGood Contacts site with me signed into my account, offering me 90 lenses for €78.45 (equivalent of 30 lenses at €26.15.)
The price shown on FeelGood Contacts in an incognito browser after following a link from Google: €19.20 per 30-day box.
#ireland

“EU GDPR enforcement against Big Tech is paralysed by Ireland’s failure to deliver draft decisions on cross-border cases. Ireland’s failure to uphold the GDPR has allowed surveillance to remain the default business model of the digital world.”

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202207/un-human-rights-committee-expected-to-question-irelands-plans-for-facial-recognition

CC @noybeu

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UN Human Rights Committee expected to question Ireland’s plans for facial recognition

Civil rights group states that the Data Protection Commission failings have allowed surveillance as a default business model.
Frank Hersey (BiometricUpdate.com)
#privacy #HumanRights #gdpr #ireland #facialrecognition #enforcement @noyb.eu

Ryanair, the worst of Ireland.

https://inkl.com/a/rMLBykSJbqJ

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Ryanair Asks Travelers to Prove South African Nationality, in Afrikaans

Before he could board a recent Ryanair flight to London, Dinesh Joseph, a 45-year-old South African leadership and management trainer,…
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#ireland #ryanair

So how’s the rental market going in Ireland, then?

(Kilkenny, where we live, is a city with a population of ~22,000. Daft is basically the only property app/site in Ireland.)

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Screenshot of Daft app: a search for all rental properties in Kilkenny without any filters.
Screenshot of Daft app: no results found.
#ireland #kilkenny #daft #renting

One of my little morning joys: a little local Purple Cloud lavender honey in my porridge.

One of the tastiest honeys I’ve had and made right here in Kilkenny in Ireland.

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#food #ireland #local #kilkenny

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