A category dealing with the ethics and legalities of the management of Information and Information Quality.
I think Charlton Heston put it best: Damn them all to hell! They finally went and did it! They blew it up!” That was my immediate reaction to the Brexit news this morning. A campaign that was polluted by lies and misinformation from the pro-Brexit side, including a bold claim that voting to leave the …
Today is International Women’s Day. It is also another day that the Irish Department of Health and Children will spend counting down the hours until they can destroy material evidence of bad things that have happened to women in the State. Material evidence that they obtained through the operation of a Redress Scheme the terms …
Over on the company site I’ve written a piece on Data Retention policies that references the Symphisiotomy redress scheme as a case study in data retention planning (not in a good way). For those who didn’t spot it yesterday and who are glued to the national media that isn’t referencing this huge story, let me …
My significant other has acted as an enumerator for the Irish Census of Population in the past, and has applied to do it again. Every census season, I see lots of ill-informed comment about the nature of the census, what the data can or will be used for, and who it will be shared with. …
Over the course of my career I’ve been lucky to meet and become friends with many of the pioneers in the fields of Information Quality, Data Governance, and Data Protection. I have been doubly fortunate that some of these people have also become mentors – helping me to figure out what I wanted to do, …
So, the Minister for Education is fighting a rear-guard action to justify the method of execution of the Primary Online Database. Get ready for the rakes. Correctly, she is stressing the need for a means to track education outcomes as children move from primary to secondary education, where there is a drop-out rate which is …
This morning the Irish Times has a story about Irish Water, landlords, tenants, and PPSNs The article tells us that: Bills are to be issued quarterly, but as Irish Water will have the tenant’s PPS number, the utility firm will be able to pursue the tenant for any arrears and even apply any arrears to …
[This is a repost of a post I wrote o the 24th of September. Some people said they had difficulty accessing it so I am reposting it. I’ve updated it with links to other relevant posts that I’ve made since then. They are included in-line] This evening [24th Sept] the Data Protection Commissioner has contacted …
Irish Water and the DPC’s letter and what it means Read More »
Every so often I read things in the newspaper that make me go “Yay!”. More frequently I read things that make me go “Boo!”. Today, as with other days, I read something that made me go “WHAT THE F….?!?!”. Over the past few weeks the Irish Times has done a bang up job breaking some …
Roll Up, Roll Up – see the amazing psychic dog! (minor update) Read More »
In the Western world our rights are under attack. In the UK for example the policy of the Tory party is to abolish the Human Rights Act (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21726612). In the fast changing world of data and information private companies and governments alike go to great lengths to peer inside our digital lives in a manner …