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 …
This post was originally published on the Irish Computer Society Data Protection blog. I am republishing it here as it is my original work and I am moving my Data Protection musings into one place. Over on my personal blog [this one] I’ve written a short piece about my thoughts re: the Facebook Audit by …
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 …
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Over the years I’ve done a lot of work in the area of Regulatory Compliance and Information Quality. Whether it is Data Protection, Information Quality, Governance or Compliance, it is important to bear in mind that what we are dealing with a Quality Management System: Data Protection Compliance is the Quality System where by the …
A few days ago my friend Simon asked me to jump in and give him a hand admining a Facebook group he first set up in 2009 in response to some of the reports that had been published into clerical sexual abuse in Ireland. These reports highlighted a catalogue of blocking, interference, and general institutionalised …
A while back I had the privilege of being part of a group who formulated submissions to the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the Data Security Breach Code of Practice. That Code of Practice was presented to the Minister for Justice in July 2010, long before the dissolution of the Dáil in January 2011. There was …
I’ve written previously about Fine Gael and their issues with avoiding Data Protection pitfalls during this current General Election. Some people might have gotten the impression that I’m obsessed with Fine Gael. I’m not. I’m obsessed with Data, specifically the management of data and information in manner that ensures quality outcomes through quality data governed …
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 …
Thanks to Jim Harris over at OCDQBlog.com I came across Wordle, which creates word clouds (like tag clouds) based on text content. Here’s a link to the Word Cloud for this blog. I think the theme of my personal blogging is clear from this image… Not a great post to start 2011, but there is …