The Business of Information

Support your Local Sheriff–why the DPC needs us to help them help us.

Business, Data Protection, Politics & Culture / By / July 18, 2012 / , , ,

Problem Statement The Irish Government is tripping over itself to win FDI from the new ‘Big Data’ enterprises. Whether it is promoting Ireland as a perfect location for Data Centres (it is, apparently we’re in a temperate Goldilocks zone) or chasing flagship investments in European headquarters for companies such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Zynga Games, Twitter, …

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Describe what you do in one word…

Business, Ethics & Law of Information, Information Quality, Philosophical Musings, Self-Actualisation / By / June 23, 2012

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 “inspire”, “command” or “drink”. But it is a good exercise to set yourself. This evening I was responding to an retweet of an article I …

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Why Apple’s iOS6 changes mean increased work for Irish Data Protection Commissioner

Data Protection, Ethics & Law of Information, Information Quality / By / June 13, 2012 / , , , , ,

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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An Enforcement Reality supporting my “Penalty Points” idea

Data Protection, Information Quality / By / May 22, 2012

Over my morning coffee this morning I read this story from eConsultancy.com about the UK ICO beginning ‘soft enforcement’ of the ePrivacy regulations around cookies. Good news: They are starting to enforce the law. They will be taking a balanced approach. I assume that the letters will take the form of Information Notices and possibly …

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An open letter to Viviane Reding

Data Protection, Ethics & Law of Information, Philosophical Musings, Politics & Culture / By / May 17, 2012 / , ,

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 …

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Newspaper Licensing Ireland–a return

Data Protection, Ethics & Law of Information / By / May 10, 2012 /

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 …

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Newspaper Licensing Ireland– some thoughts

Data Protection, Ethics & Law of Information / By / May 10, 2012 /

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 …

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Culture of Compliance

Data Protection / By / March 19, 2012 / , , ,

So, Phil Hogan believes that the vast majority of people in Ireland want to be compliant with legislation, specifically the Household Charge. Perhaps a first step to ensuring that compliance would be for the Minister to ensure that the Household Charge is being implemented in a manner that is compliant with the Data Protection Acts. …

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While we’re all fired up about protecting rights..

Data Protection, Politics & Culture / By / January 27, 2012

Hey you #stopsopaireland people, I’ve got a favour to ask. It’s not a big one. It will take you 30 seconds to do but it may help to make your life a little better The 30 seconds kicks in as soon as you’ve finished reading this post. The discussion around #stopsopaireland has focussed on the …

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