This post was originally published on the ICS Data Protection Blog. It is republished here as it is my original work and I am putting my Data Protection musings in one place. Earlier this month we saw the leaking of a late draft of the forthcoming EU Data Protection Regulation. Yes. That’s right. Regulation. In …
The Tallaght Hospital story is a salutatory tale of what can go wrong when engaging third parties to perform any service for your organisation. Left to their own devices and absent any control or governance framework that can verify that what is to be done has been done (in its entirety) and has been done …
In the course of a twitter conversation with Jim Harris I used the phrase “turd polishing” to describe what happens when organisations try to implement check-box based data governance or Compliance programmes, or invest in business intelligence or analytics strategies without fixing the data which under pins those strategies addressing the organisational cultural and structural …
I’m a big science fiction fan. I make no apologies about this fact. One of my favourite science fiction characters is The Doctor, the lead character in the BBC’s iconic series of the same name. In a genre that often falls for the easy charms of technology to drive a story, The Doctor (a 930 …
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Over the years I’ve done a lot of work in the area of Regulatory Compliance and Information Quality. Whether it is Data Protection, Information Quality, Governance or Compliance, it is important to bear in mind that what we are dealing with a Quality Management System: Data Protection Compliance is the Quality System where by the …
A few days ago my friend Simon asked me to jump in and give him a hand admining a Facebook group he first set up in 2009 in response to some of the reports that had been published into clerical sexual abuse in Ireland. These reports highlighted a catalogue of blocking, interference, and general institutionalised …
The recent furore about the News of the World and other tabloids engaging in unauthorised access voicemails I thought it might be worth pondering the potential Irish legal situation. Now, I’m not a lawyer. This post is intended to work through some of the relevant legislation and the potential issues that might arise in Irish …
Mobile phone hacking and the e-Privacy Regulations Read More »
This was first posted on the Irish Computer Society Data Protection Blog. I am republishing it here as it is my original work and I am putting all my Data Protection musings in one place. So, the revised e-Privacy Directive has been given legal effect as of 1st July (only a little over a month …
I’ve recently been pondering the 3-strikes process which is used by eircom to police illegal content uploaders and the Data Protection implications of same. [By way of full disclosure, I used to work there in a role that involved me analysing processes and finding out where they were broken and potentially non-compliant with host of …
First published on the Irish Computer Society Data Protection Blog. Republished here as it is my original work and I’m putting all my Data Protection musings in one place. So, this day next week (26th May) will see the introduction into Irish Law of Directive 2009/136/EC. It’s a tweak to the existing electronic privacy regulations. …