Ethics & Law of Information

A category dealing with the ethics and legalities of the management of Information and Information Quality.

There is oft a slip twixt tweet and twolicy

This blog post is basically the text of an audioboo I recorded at 9:30 this morning which has disappeared into the ether ne’er to be found. Fine Gael have launched their “Twolicy Page”. I won’t comment on the hideous neologistic portmanteau that is “Twolicy”, other than to say it that seems to have been dreamed …

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If you’re going to wave a sword, know where the pointy bit is

Over the weekend two Irish newspapers (Irish Examiner and Sunday Tribune) reported that one of our leading Trade Unions had filed a complaint with the Data Protection Commissioner on behalf of staff who had received letters by courier from their employer with whom they are engaged in an industrial relations dispute. While I’m all in …

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The curious case of Enda and the Technology

Enda Kenny found himself slightly ambushed on the news last night (6-One News on RTE) by Bryan Dobson. At the end of a segment about the trials and tribulations of Brian Cowen, Enda was asked about the problems that have befallen the FG website. Enda’s response was telling on a number of fronts. He indicated …

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Fine Gael’s website: some thoughts

It looks like there’s been some rework done on the FG website to address Data Protection concerns. This good and is to be commended. It is also in line with how the Data Protection Commissioner works with organisations who have compliance issues.  However, issues did exist prior to yesterday which will continue to present challenges …

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New Data Protection post over on the company site

I’ve just written a new article over on the company website about Director’s liability for data security breaches. An expert in the Sunday Business Post over the weekend was waving a big stick at Company Directors saying that they could become liable for prosecution for security breaches if Ireland transposes the Convention on Cybercrime into …

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Bruce Schneier on Privacy

Via the Twitters I came across this absolutely brilliant video of Bruce Schneier talking about data privacy (that’s the American for Data Protection). Bruce makes some great points. One of the key points that overlaps between Data Protection and Information Quality is where he tells us that Data is the pollution problem of the Information …

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Putting Teeth In the Tiger

This post was originally published in August 2010 on the Irish Computer Society’s Data Protection Blog. I’ve copied it to here as it is my work and I want to put all my Data Protection musings in one place. Please feel free to go and look at it on the ICS site as well. The …

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Personal Data – an Asset we hold on Trust

There has been a bit of a scandal in Ireland with the discovery that Temple St Children’s Hospital has been retaining blood samples from children indefinitely without the consent of parents. The story broke in the Sunday Times just after Christmas and has been picked up as a discussion point on sites such as Boards.ie. …

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Bank of Ireland – again

The Irish Times today reports that Bank of Ireland are again investigating incidents of double charging of customers who use LASER cards. I wrote about this last month (see the archives here), picking up on a post from Tuppenceworth.ie earlier in the summer. I won’t be writing anything more about the issue (at least not …

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