Over the weekend, the Data Protection Commissioner announced that they were considering asking mobile phone companies to suspend the ability of mobile phone subscribers to access their voicemail remotely by dialling in to it from other phones. [clarification: the DPC has issued a clarification to this which we have detailed in this subsequent post] This ...
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 ...
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 ...
A recent news story in the Irish Times about the data protection compliance problems faced by the Irish Insurance industry serves as a timely reminder of one of the mantras for Data Protection compliance: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. In this instance, a perfectly legitimate process existed for sharing data in certain ...