Daragh

Daragh O Brien is a 30-something male living in the South-East of Ireland He is a leading practitioner in the area of Information/Data Quality Management, Information Governance, and Data Protection and previously sat on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Information & Data Quality(www.iaidq.org). He is also a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. Daragh is the Managing Director of Castlebridge Associates, a specialist Information Quality Management training, mentoring and project management practice based in Wexford, Ireland. He is a FETAC qualified trainer and enjoys bringing his decade plus experience of Information Quality Management to bear on problems and challenges faced by businesses from SME to Large Corporate. Daragh also lectures part time in Dublin City University in the School of Computing on the European Masters in Business Informatics and in a guest lecturing capacity to undergraduates.

The customer conundrum

I’m a customer of a few on-online services. I have really liked using Tweetdeck for the past few months (hang on… years… eek). The problem is that I’m busy. Nuts busy. I’ve a business, a family, and a strange compulsion to sleep maybe a few minutes or three every day or so. I’m a voracious …

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An open letter to Viviane Reding

Dear Commissioner Reding, I’m writing to you as an EU Citizen who is passionate about data, is use, its quality, and its protection. I’m not writing to you as the Managing Director of a company that offers Data Protection training and consulting services, but in the interests of transparency I think it best to disclose …

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Newspaper Licensing Ireland–a revisit

So, late last night I wrote a post about NLI and their link license fee nonsense. In that post I decided to focus on the non-compliant behaviour of an organisation setting itself out as being the arbiters of compliance with copyright when it came to the data protection/privacy compliance obligations that they appear to either …

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Newspaper Licensing Ireland–a return

The last post was a little long and analytical. Having reread the great post on McGarrSolicitors.ie I thought I’d reframe my Data Protection take on this in terms that might be more familiar. Personal Data is being processed via your website without an appropriate Privacy Statement and without any communication of the purposes for that …

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Newspaper Licensing Ireland– some thoughts

This post is about the website of Newspaper Licensing Ireland, who have recently written to a non-profit organisation whose aims I wholeheartedly support, seeking license fees for linking to newspaper content published on the internet by the newspaper publishers. McGarr Solicitors, who are acting for Women’s Aid, have published a detailed analysis of the situation …

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Culture of Compliance

So, Phil Hogan believes that the vast majority of people in Ireland want to be compliant with legislation, specifically the Household Charge. Perhaps a first step to ensuring that compliance would be for the Minister to ensure that the Household Charge is being implemented in a manner that is compliant with the Data Protection Acts. …

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Correction from Irish Examiner re: Vatican Closure

After some toing and froing and an email trail that included quotes from the Chairman of TCH (the parent company of the Irish Examiner) at #mediv2012 I finally got clarification from the editor of the Irish Examiner of their Vatican Embassy story (soon to be corrected on-line), which I first blogged about on the 19th …

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SOPA, Irish political debate, and keyboard warriors

I work in a knowledge-driven sector (consulting and training). I have written two publications that have ISBN numbers, which makes them books I suppose. They were each over 100 A4 pages long. I’ve written hundreds of blog posts and articles over the years and have a large external hard drive filled with every presentation I’ve …

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While we’re all fired up about protecting rights..

Hey you #stopsopaireland people, I’ve got a favour to ask. It’s not a big one. It will take you 30 seconds to do but it may help to make your life a little better The 30 seconds kicks in as soon as you’ve finished reading this post. The discussion around #stopsopaireland has focussed on the …

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