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Me, speaking and teaching in 2015
Elderly data jedi imparts cryptic wisdom (film at 11) So, a bunch of people have asked me to speak at events this year. And this is ON TOP of events and training I’m doing with my company (Castlebridge...
View ArticleFarewell Caspar
Over the course of my career I’ve been lucky to meet and become friends with many of the pioneers in the fields of Information Quality, Data Governance, and Data Protection. I have been doubly...
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The General Data Protection Regulation and “Mental Discounting”
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in the home straight, with publication of final, final text expected in Q1 of 2016 (expect something to happen towards the end of January). One of...
View ArticleCensus and Data Protection
My significant other has acted as an enumerator for the Irish Census of Population in the past, and has applied to do it again. Every census season, I see lots of ill-informed comment about the nature...
View ArticleSymphisiotomy, Redress, and the DPC
Over on the company site I’ve written a piece on Data Retention policies that references the Symphisiotomy redress scheme as a case study in data retention planning (not in a good way). For those who...
View ArticleHappy International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. It is also another day that the Irish Department of Health and Children will spend counting down the hours until they can destroy material evidence of bad things...
View ArticleBrexit’s got Talent?
I think Charlton Heston put it best: Damn them all to hell! They finally went and did it! They blew it up!” That was my immediate reaction to the Brexit news this morning. A campaign that was polluted...
View ArticleA Letter to the Editor
Over the past few days, the Irish Times has carried a larger volume than usual of the “Data Protection Commissioner is evil” letters, giving out about her “nonsensical powers” because the bad lady...
View ArticleAwakening from Slumber
It’s been just over a year since I wrote anything on this blog. That’s too long. So I’ll be writing some stuff today and tomorrow about my experiences using FOI to identify where mandatory procedural...
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Wexford County Council – Send in the Drones
Back at Easter, Wexford County Council announced they were using drones to help police travel restrictions in respect of Covid-19. Cameras mounted on drones constitute a form of mass surveillance over...
View ArticleMea Minima Culpa – Politicians, Rubber Chicken, and Pandemics
So, 81 people attended a Golf Society event in a hotel in Clifden during a time when the country was losing control again on a pandemic, largely through community transmission. At the time, the public...
View ArticleStrange bedfellows
We are living in strange times. And I’m not just talking about Covid, forest fires, or the potential discovtaery of signs of alien life on Venus. No, I’m talking about the bizarro-world scenario of...
View ArticleArticle 49 Derogations and GDPR
As I write this I am listening to an IAPP webinar on LinkedIn Live discussing Article 49 derogations for data transfers outside the EU. There is some consternation in the discussion about the narrow...
View ArticleArticle 49 – A slight reprise
I posted yesterday about my complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission about the cross border data transfers of an international not-for-profit organisation. This is a topic I’ve looked at...
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