A category dealing with the ethics and legalities of the management of Information and Information Quality.
It was reported yesterday that the Irish Government has issued a “discussion paper†on the proposed administrative sanctions under the new Data Protection Regulation. EDRI has criticised the proposals with reference to the “warning/dialogue/enforcement†approach taken by the Irish DPC. Billy Hawkes has, in the past, been at pains to clarify that the Irish DPC …
An opinion piece by Joe Humphreys in the Irish Times on the 9th of January (which I can link to here thanks to the great work of McGarr Solicitors) discusses anonymous comment on-line. In doing so he presents an argument that would appear to suggest that persons taking a nom de plume in debate are …
[updated 2012-12-27@17:11 to reflect comments from TJ McIntyre] [edited introductory paragraphs at 20:34 2012-12-27 reflecting feedback from Aoife below, fair comment made and responded to] [Note: This has been posted today because RTE are doing a thing about “social media regulation” which means that levers are being pulled that need to be red flagged] I …
I was on the news this afternoon. The radio. So the world was spared my visage. My words were quick in response to rapid fire questions about why Europe v Facebook had announced they were suing Facebook in Ireland and their comments about the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. To put some clarity on my comments …
The Intro Robodialling, autodialling, power dialling. Call it what you will. It is the use of computers and computer telephony integration to save the tired fingers of call centre workers and turn the job into a battery farm of talk… pause.. talk. I know. I’ve worked with them. Heck, I designed the backend data management …
An Irish athlete is under investigation less than 24hrs into the Olympics arising from allegations that they, in effect, bet against themselves. An anonymous source became aware of the pattern of betting and notified the authorities. This blog post is being written to help media commentators avoid either putting their feet in it or wasting …
This is a challenge an old boss of mine used to set. He was an alpha male. The answer he was looking for was usually a variant of “lead†like “inspireâ€, “command†or “drinkâ€. But it is a good exercise to set yourself. This evening I was responding to an retweet of an article I …
At Apple’s WWDC conference this week nerds, fanbois and developers were greet by the news that Apple will be shipping iOS6 later in the autumn (or “fall†for non European readers). Among the features that Apple is touting are: Ditching Google Maps for its own mapping product and GPS tools More deeply integrating Facebook with …
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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 …
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 …