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 …
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 …
So, today the European Commission is announcing new rules for Data Protection and Privacy in the EU (and the EEA countries and those countries seeking accession to the EU). There is hype and hoopla about the rules and what they mean, particularly for organisations conducting business on-line, companies based outside the EU selling into the …
On Monday the 16th January 2012 the Irish Examiner ran a story that purported to have found that 93% of the Irish public “decried” the decision of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to close Ireland’s embassy in the Vatican City State. The article detailed how they had undertaken a review of correspondence released under the …
Phil Hogan has stated on RTE news that the problems with the Privacy Statement have been fixed. They haven’t (and for record purposes I’ve taken a PDF copy of the current Privacy Statement to track future evolutions). The problem with not complying with Google’s Terms and Conditions has been fixed. The problems with: Lack of …
Household Charge Data Protection: Part 4 – The Circle of Trust Read More »
I don’t normally blog twice in day but I also don’t like to write 40000 word blog posts. So here is part 2 of the post I wrote earlier (with thanks to @brianhonan for pointing out some stuff on the twitterbox). Data Retention The Privacy Statement for HouseholdCharge.ie states that The Local Government (Household Charge) …
The Household Charge Data Protection Kerfuffle (Part 2) Read More »
It’s time for my annual “roll a data protection hand grenade under something†blog post. Every year I try to be topical. And I try to apply a similar approach to spotting risks and getting them on the table for discussion as I do when conducting Privacy Impact Assessments or Compliance reviews. Only I’m less …
Household Charge–A Data Protection kerfuffle in the making? Read More »
Ok. Time for a little festivities here on the blog while I oversee (yet another) attempt to migrate the company website to a faster server for 2012. When I was Director of Publicity of the IAIDQ one of the challenges at this time of the year was preparing the end of year email blast to …
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 …
Information Quality Change – the Doctor Who effect Read More »