{"id":631421,"date":"2026-09-21T13:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/631421\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:18:14","slug":"low-pay-workers-and-an-ai-data-privacy-warning-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/631421\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-pay workers and an AI data privacy warning \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Low pay is particularly prevalent in sectors like hospitality, food services and retail, Emmet Malone reports, where many workers are often unable to secure enough hours of work each week to earn a decent standard of living. That\u2019s according to new research<\/a> conducted by academics from think tank NERI and the UCD School of Business and other institutions.<\/p>\n

Proposals aimed at simplifying digital regulations in the European Union would weaken existing privacy regulations, opening the floodgates for artificial intelligence (AI) companies to access European users\u2019 data virtually unrestricted, privacy campaigners have claimed. Ciara O\u2019Brien reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Internet provider Siro is targeting firms based in Ireland\u2019s 600 business parks for full-fibre broadband upgrades. It comes after data published by ComReg revealed that a significant number of companies in Ireland are operating in what Siro called \u201cfibre broadband deserts\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chicken has suddenly become big business in Ireland, with an influx of US<\/a> brands: Popeyes, Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken, Wingstop and Chick-fil-A. Reporting from the front lines of the war for dominance in the Republic\u2019s fast food chicken industry, Stephen Conneely delves into what\u2019s driving the market<\/a> with some of its biggest players.<\/p>\n

To a large extent, Pilita Clark<\/a> says she can\u2019t wait for robotaxis to take over. However, their arrival in London in recent weeks is a reminder of the bleak outlook for the city\u2019s nearly 15,000 black cab drivers and their 105,000 private-hire counterparts.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Martin Wolf<\/a> predicts that the sheer complexity of regulating the tech industry\u2019s products in this age of AI omnipresence and recursive self-improvement will prove either too daunting or too good an excuse not even to try. So, we will go ahead in our usual helter-skelter (and all too human) fashion, simply hoping for the best.<\/p>\n

Finally, in this week\u2019s opinion column, property economist Dr John McCartney makes the case that despite conflicting signals from commercial property agents, demand for office space<\/a> in Dublin is currently weak, not strong, fundamentally because office-based employment is contracting and remote working is continuing to expand.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances, try signing up to On the Money<\/a>, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Low pay is particularly prevalent in sectors like hospitality, food services and retail, Emmet Malone reports, where many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,8319,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-631421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business-today","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}