Student Hub: Should you erase your digital footprint to progress your career?

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The safety of online private data has come into focus this week following revelations that Cambridge Analytica had siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built a election-consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
The safety of online private data has come into focus this week following revelations that Cambridge Analytica had siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built a election-consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg

Should you erase your digital footprint to progress your career? According to a survey from CV-Library (a UK-based generalist jobs board with an Irish presence since June of last year), one-third of recruiters actively track potential candidates on social media and most employees believe they will be judged based on what they've posted. Olivia Keogh reports.

DCU is set to become the world's first 'autism friendly' university. The university has pledged to introduce a range of supports and initiatives to minimise issues faced by people with autism along with autism-specific training and awareness for academic and support staff across the university. Carl O'Brien has the details.

Do you know the Irish for transgender? The Union of Students in Ireland (USI), BelonG To Youth Services, and the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland (TENI) have jointly produced a new dictionary listing over 100 Irish words and terms for those wishing to appraise themselves of the constantly evolving gender vocabulary. Éanna Ó Caollaí reports.

Cairn Homes, the Dublin-listed homebuilder, has received approval from An Board Pleanála for a development comprising 130 residential apartments and 179 student accommodation units in Stillorgan, south Dublin. Joe Brennan reports.

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Have you heard of the great Jeremy Corbyn Russian hat conspiracy? Donald Clarke reports on the claim that took social media by storm during the week that the BBC edited a photo of the Labour leader to make him look more 'Russian'.

Here are six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend. New releases include Oprah in A Wrinkle in Time, and a Steven Soderbergh iPhone movie. Donald Clarke and Tara Brady report.

Gardaí in Co Kerry are investigating the alleged use of a Garda uniform at a St Patrick's Day parade in Castleisland in a sketch centring on Sgt Maurice McCabe. Anne Lucey has more.

Éanna Ó Caollaí

Éanna Ó Caollaí

Iriseoir agus Eagarthóir Gaeilge An Irish Times. Éanna Ó Caollaí is The Irish Times' Irish Language Editor, editor of The Irish Times Student Hub, and Education Supplements editor.