Morning Ireland, Irish Water, and Data Protection clarifications
Elizabeth Arnett of Irish Water was on Morning Ireland this morning. Some good and important clarifications given. She confirmed PPSN would only be used for the purposes of validating allowance...
View ArticleIrish Water channelling Alec Guinness
Irish Water is working hard on Twitter and in other forums to convince itself, if not us, that all is well with regard to their Data Protection policies and procedures. In response to questions...
View ArticleIrish Water: Quality by Design
Having failed the Privacy by Design Test, Irish Water have lurched into one of my other specialist areas today, Information Quality. This story in the Irish Times...
View ArticleIrish Government projects and the Data Protection Rake
The more I see the mindset of the Irish Civil Service around data and its potential for use (and misuse and abuse), the harder I find it to get this video out of my mind. Over the past two years,...
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Data Protection Rake: WHACK!!
So, the Minister for Education is fighting a rear-guard action to justify the method of execution of the Primary Online Database. Get ready for the rakes. Correctly, she is stressing the need for a...
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...
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...
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