Last week the Irish Times published an article that I can only describe as poorly researched. The gist of the article was that ambulance services were finding it difficult to get to the right addresses in time to save people because Data Protection rules don’t allow them to use GPS location of people’s phones. Bullshit …
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The Data Protection Commissioner has just published his annual report. It makes (as always) interesting reading. It has only been released in the last 30 minutes but there are elements of it that I will return to in detail in a post on my company website later this week (once digested). Over here on my …
So, David Hall is challenging the provisions of the Personal Insolvency Act regarding the publication of details on public registers. I’m quoted in this Irish Times article about it. My comments, which I expand on here as an update to my earlier post, where to the effect that: The publication of detailed personal data on …
Coverage of some of the structures of the Insolvency Service of Ireland has been rattling through my ears while I work the past few days. What I’ve heard gives rise to an unsettling feeling that the architects of the scheme have decided that the insolvent are a form of unter-mensch for whom some of the …
I’m addicted to the think. Every day, when not thoroughly occupied with the challenges of a client strategy or issue, I find myself drawn to hard thinking. Sometimes I even get people plying me with think. Like this past few weeks. Lots of think. One thing I’ve been asked to think about is the whole …
Yes. It is a pity that Guthrie cards will be destroyed. Yes, there is potentially valuable data held on them. But there is also a fundamental right to Personal Data Privacy under EU Treaties and there is that pesky thing called the Data Protection Acts/Data Protection Directive. The DPC investigated the issue of heel prick …
Twitter is great. I found myself this evening discussing the psychology of alarms with Rob Karel of informatica. He had tweeted that a car alarm outside his office had been going off for an hour but his brain had filtered it out. This is not an uncommon reaction to bells and alarms and is the …
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 …
The Official Twitter Account of the Irish EU Presidency (@eu2013ie) tweeted earlier today about recipes. That gave me a little food for thought given the subject matter I posted on yesterday. Ireland will hold the Presidency of the EU in the first half of 2013. Part of what we will be tasked with is guiding …