Month: February 2008

Final post and update on IBTS issues

OK. This is (hopefully) my final post on the IBTS issues. I may post their response to my queries about why I received a letter and why my data was in New York. I may not. So here we go.. First off, courtesy of a source who enquired about the investigation, the Data Protection Commissioner …

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IBTS… returning to the scene of the crime

Some days I wake up feeling like Lt. Columbo. I bound out of bed assured in myself that, throughout the day I’ll be niggled by, or rather niggle others with, ‘just one more question’. Today was not one of those days. But you’d be surprised what can happen while going about the morning ablutions. “Over …

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So what did the IBTSB do right?

In the interests of a bit of balance, and prompted by some considered comment by Owen O’Connor on Simon’s post over on Tuppenceworth, I thought it might be worth focussing for a moment on what the IBTSB did right. They had a plan that recognised data security as a key concern. They specified contract terms …

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More thoughts on the IBTS data breach

One of the joys of having occasional bouts of insomnia is that you can spend hours in the dead of night pondering what might have happened in a particular scenario based on your experience and the experience of others. For example, the IBTS has rushed to assure us that the data that was sent to …

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Fair use/Specified purpose and the IBTS

I am a blood donor. I am proud of it. I have provided quite a lot of sensitive personal data to the IBTS over the years that I’ve been donating. The specific purposes for which I believed I was providing the information was to allow the IBTS to administer communications with me as a donor …

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Irish Blood Transfusion Service loses data..

Why is it that people never learn? Only months after the debacle of HMRC sending millions of records of live confidential data whizzing around in the post on 2 CDs (or DVDs), the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) has had 171,000 records of blood tests and blood donors stolen. The data was on a laptop …

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Managing MANs

I live just outside Wexford town where I have a relatively expensive, relatively slow and occasionally downright awful fixed wireless/wifi broadband service. It struggles to top 1mb download and yesterday I clocked it at 16kbps upload. I’d have been faster training a pigeon to sing the email to the intended recipient and act out the …

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The script is in development…

It seems that there is a deal imminent in the US Writers Strike. Lawyers are due to present the final draft to the writers and studios tomorrow. But already Joe Esterhaz has been lined up to ‘sex it up’ for the masses and Jerry Bruckheimer will produce the mammoth deal, with Paul Verhoven lined up …

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