I use a standing desk when working in my office (and if I could find a light weight portable option I’d use one on client sites as well). Many of the greatest leaders have used standing desks. There are proven medical benefits to getting off your backside when working. It’s worth bearing in mind that …
So, within hours of me blogging about data protection consent issues in the Facebook mood manipulation study, the Register has the EXCLUSIVE that Facebook is being investigated by the irish DPC with specific questions around the consent relied upon. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/01/uk_and_irish_data_watchdogs_wade_in_on_facebook_messin_with_your_head_scandal/ I’m not saying anyone in an office above a Centra in Portarlington reads this blog …
This is an initial post based on the information I have to hand today (1st July 2014). I’ve written it because I’ve had a number of queries this morning about the Data Protection implications of Facebook’s research activity. I’m writing it here and not on my company’s website because it is a work in progress and …
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Earlier this week the Data Protection Commissioner bemoaned the lack of attention to detail and the poor culture of Data Protection compliance practices in the Irish Public Service. He was right to do so. My experience as both a service user and as a consultant has been that there are excellent people making excellent efforts …
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Scanning twitter over my post-breakfast intra-planning pre-work coffee this morning I noticed tweets that were agog at a Minister for Health who is a medical doctor asking non-medical doctor political colleagues for lists of people who should have been given a medical card. The agogness was triggered by this news story on the RTE website. …
The Strife of Reilly (Tone at the Top revisited) Read More »
I’ve written in the past about the problems with the “tone at the top” around Data Protection and Data Privacy in Irish government and political circles. Bluntly, with few exceptions, it seems they don’t get it, don’t like it, and would rather it go away. That attitude cascades down into government departments where it is …
Below is an edited version of the letter I faxed to Brendan Howlin today regarding Freedom of Information Act fees proposed last Friday at the end of legislative drafting before the Committee Stage in the Irish Parliament. While I agree that public service resources need to be utilised efficiently, particularly in the current (apparently getting …
Today’s Irish Times carried a story in the Business section that the ASAI, self-described on their website as the "self regulatory body" for the advertising industry in Ireland, have issued guidelines on the use of cookies in behavioural advertising which will come into effect from September. Great news but for a few minor facts that …
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I thought it timely to add an Information Quality perspective to the debate and discussion on NAMA. So, for tweeters the hashtag is #NAMAInfoQuality. The title of this post (less the Hashtag) is, co-incidentally, the title of a set of paired conferences I’m helping to organise in Dublin and Cardiff in a little over a …
Over the past few weeks I’ve been pondering whether or not Information Quality Management is a recession proof profession. Those of you who know me will probably guess that my recent departure from “big company” employment was one of the seeds to this line of thought. Another was the interesting findings contained in the IAIDQ’s …
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