Over on my personal blog I’ve written a short piece about my thoughts re: the Facebook Audit by the DPC. All in all I welcome the findings (and at 40 or so discrete findings it is not a clean bill of health by any stretch of the imagination regardless of spin and positioning) but feel ...
The Tallaght Hospital story is a salutatory tale of what can go wrong when engaging third parties to perform any service for your organisation. Left to their own devices and absent any control or governance framework that can verify that what is to be done has been done (in its entirety) and has been done ...
So, the revised e-Privacy Directive has been given legal effect as of 1st July (only a little over a month late). The Data Protection Commissioner has issued revised guidance on the processing of personal data in the context of electronic communications. Some of what is contained in this legislation is new. However, even the new ...
So, this day next week (26th May) will see the introduction into Irish Law of Directive 2009/136/EC. It’s a tweak to the existing electronic privacy regulations. The ones that relate to spamming by fax, email and SMS and carry penalties of up to €5000 per breach. [update: Well the deadline came and went without the ...
So, Sony’s Online Entertainment Network has been hacked. From the reports, it appears that two databases have been compromised. Personal data of millions of Sony customers has been stolen, including credit card numbers, bank account details, names, addresses, dates of birth… Up to 102million people’s data has been compromised. This data includes, it seems, unencrypted ...
One-fifth of respondents have been the victim of a data breach in the past twelve months according to a survey published by the Irish Computer Society (ICS) in advance of its annual Data Protection conference on Thursday, February 24. The ICS ‘Data Protection Attitudes and Practices Survey 2011’ examined awareness of data protection and instances ...
The Register recently carried a story about the Daily Mail was in high dudgeon and indignation because a dog owner was being prevented from being given access to the personal details of someone who had come into the possession of their pooch who had been missing for 3 years. The dog owner had paid good ...
Over on my company site I’ve written a post about how it is important to take a step back from time to time and take a holistic view of the Data Asset and the management issues that it brings to bear in an organisation. The post was inspired partly by the content of a number ...
Over the past few posts I’ve been writing about how Irish organisations who process personal data need to prepare themselves for the introduction of penalties to further strengthen the powers of the Data Protection Commissioner as the “Data Protection” watchdog. Back in June, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding gave the UK Government two months ...
I listened with interest this morning to the media coverage of how John Gormley was introducing a new tax on commercial vehicles. My interest was twofold. My wife used to work in the Motor Tax section of a local authority. She left there nearly 4 years ago. Even then drivers of light commercial vehicles had ...