The title says it all: Irish language speakers are to protest against Facebooks "Real Name" policy because it doesn't allow them to use the Irish language form of their names if not on official documents.
admin9th September 2015
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Our research team bring news of an academic paper that looked at root causes of Data Management project failures, particularly with regard to Data Protection and accuracy of information, in Public Sector organisations in Australia.
admin31st August 2015
This story in the Irish Times on Friday highlights the need for Privacy Impact Assessments to think about the other potential uses of data that would be made public or shareable, often outside of the scope of the product, project,…
admin10th August 2015
From Lexology we learn that the Australian Privacy Commissioner has ruled that telecoms metadata (including ip address, cell towers, and other data retained beyond basic billing purposes) could be classed as personal data where there was an ability to cross…
admin21st July 2015
Forbes has been covering the findings of a US research study into privacy attitudes to Internet of Things (IoT). Surprise surprise people are concerned about the impacts on privacy. IoT, and in that category we would include wearables and the…
admin17th July 2015
Information Age reports that the New York Times has been acquiring private IP addresses from the devices that visit their website to see behind public IP addresses presented by networks to the world. Technical details can be found here.
admin17th July 2015
Sky News are reporting that police officers in the UK are to be investigated for tweeting a surveillance camera image taken from a police helicopter that featured a celebrity comedian Michael McIntyre which they subsequently posted to twitter. The ICO…
admin16th July 2015
From The Register we learn that there is tentative agreement already on parts of the EU Data Protection Regulation. The key areas of agreement at this point relate to the territiorial scope of the Regulation and the restrictions on cross…
admin16th July 2015
The Irish Examiner has reported that a Dáil (Irish lower House of Parliament) Committee has begun discussing reforms of the Electoral Register. Among the measures being called for is the addition of PPSN data to the Register
admin15th July 2015