The origin of Data Protection Impact Assessments
The use of an assessment methodology to personal understand privacy risks and rights has been known since the mid-1990s [1]. The growing […]
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Cookies Can Kill You!
Website owners targeting EU and EEA EFTA residents must take steps to protect themselves following yet another court ruling. Websites that drop third-party […]
Convention 108: What and who?
As we have written about elsewhere on this site, Convention 108 was the first enforceable Data Protection transnational legislation globally. As the […]
European supranational legal orders
The mess of acronyms which denote various European organisations can be overwhelming. None more so that the legal orders and courts involved […]
Re-Identification of anonymised data sets
Many people seem that believe that a personal data can be anonymised by just writing over the identifier with asterixis. This is […]
Handing over CCTV footage to the police or other bodies
Many of our clients with CCTV cameras receive requests from An Garda Siochaná, the PSNI or some other Statutory Authority (SAs as […]
Data Breaches across Europe
A Data Protection Commission 2018 survey reported that GDPR awareness amongst Irish SMEs is pleasingly high (90%). However, a 2018 MicroWarehouse survey […]
PECR: an Introduction
Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (PECR) refers to a set of European directives which have been issued and refined since 2002. These […]
Guest Blog by TenFold – Understanding the GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
The GDPR–or General Data Protection Regulation–is a regulation passed by the European Union on April 27, 2016, with an effective start date […]
Big Data : The New Oil or Nuclear Waste?
We have been told that big data usage will differentiate successful businesses from failures. That is probably true, but not only as […]