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 …
Some days I wake up feeling like Lt. Columbo. I bound out of bed assured in myself that, throughout the day I’ll be niggled by, or rather niggle others with, ‘just one more question’. Today was not one of those days. But you’d be surprised what can happen while going about the morning ablutions. “Over …
In the interests of a bit of balance, and prompted by some considered comment by Owen O’Connor on Simon’s post over on Tuppenceworth, I thought it might be worth focussing for a moment on what the IBTSB did right. They had a plan that recognised data security as a key concern. They specified contract terms …
One of the joys of having occasional bouts of insomnia is that you can spend hours in the dead of night pondering what might have happened in a particular scenario based on your experience and the experience of others. For example, the IBTS has rushed to assure us that the data that was sent to …
I am a blood donor. I am proud of it. I have provided quite a lot of sensitive personal data to the IBTS over the years that I’ve been donating. The specific purposes for which I believed I was providing the information was to allow the IBTS to administer communications with me as a donor …
Why is it that people never learn? Only months after the debacle of HMRC sending millions of records of live confidential data whizzing around in the post on 2 CDs (or DVDs), the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) has had 171,000 records of blood tests and blood donors stolen. The data was on a laptop …
The Younger McGarr (Simon that is) has a very detailed and well written post on the data protection issues that arise (and seemingly are ignored) by Facebook. It can be found over at the McGarr Solicitors website. He has already picked up some complimentary comments, including one from Thomas Otter (who has written on these …
I’m frankly baffled. We are in the run up to a General Election here in Ireland. All the media pundits are quoting 24th May as the date of the (as yet unannounced) election. This would require our parliament to be dissolved at the latest next week. Ireland runs a Proportional Representation/Single Transferable Vote system. It …
What the…? – Irish Political coverage ignores the Elephant in the room Read More »
….ye wha’? There has been a lot written in relation to the electoral register and other matters about using information from other sources to improve the quality of information that you have or to create a new set of information. This makes sense, other people may already have done much of the work for you …
Propogation of information errors and the risks of using surrogate sources Read More »