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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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John Gormley, Commercial motor tax, and Data Protection Penalties

Data Protection, Politics & Culture, The Business of Information / By / January 18, 2013 / , , ,

This post was originally published in August 2010 on the Irish Computer Society’s Data Protection blog. It has been republished here as it is my original work and I’m trying to get all my Data Protection musings in one place. Some links have been updated to point to different targets here and on my company’s …

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Bank of Ireland Double Charging – a clarifying post

Business, Customer Service, Ethics & Law of Information, Information Quality, Information/Data Quality Issues, The Business of IQ / By / September 9, 2009 / , ,

Having spent the day trading IMs and talking to journalists about the Bank of Ireland Laser Card double charging kerfuffle, I thought it would be appropriate to write a calmer piece which spells out a bit more clearly my take on this issue, the particular axe I am grinding, and what this all means. I …

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