digital_data

Final post and update on IBTS issues

OK. This is (hopefully) my final post on the IBTS issues. I may post their response to my queries about why I received a letter and why my data was in New York. I may not. So here we go.. First off, courtesy of a source who enquired about the investigation, the Data Protection Commissioner …

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DoBlog is 1 year old this month

Last night I was doing some housekeeping on the site and I noticed that the year-ometer on the DoBlog is about to turn over. The first post on www.obriend.com (as it was then) was on 18th April 2006. It was about the Electoral Register. With an Election looming in the next few weeks it is …

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ka-BOOM – the Information Age Explosion is upon us.

CNN.com has an interesting report on a study that was conducted by IDC, an industry think tank and research company, into the volume of information that we are creating and storing – and more importantly who is creating that information. IDC estimates that the world had 185 exabytes of storage available last year and will …

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