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As someone who has been campaigning for mandatory data breach disclosure laws in Ireland for a number of years I am pleased to see the proposed Data Security Breach Code of Practise from the office of the Data Protection Commissioner. I have long argued that organisations need to realise that the data they hold on [...]
The 21st annual report from the Data Protection Commissioner’s office has been released. As usual it makes for some very interesting reading. The report notes that the number of breaches reported to the office has doubled since the previous year. Most of these reported breaches are from organisations within the public sector. While the first [...]
Thanks to the Privacy and Information Security Blog I became aware of a very interesting development within the Germany with regards to amendments to German Data Protection legislation. On July 3rd the German Federal Parliament passed a number of changes to the German Federal Data Protection Act and will come into force on the 1st of September 2009. Some [...]
RTE‘s Prime Time Investigatesprogram ran a piece on 2nd of July on the extent of Cyber Crime in Ireland. The program is now available online and it has me contributing to it. The segment starts about 18 minutes into the program. Interesting take aways from the program for business owners; You have legal obligations under the Data [...]
The latest issue of the Law Society of Ireland’s Gazette has an opinion piece in it where I argue the case in favour of introducing breach disclosure laws into Ireland. The issue is available online and the article is on page 20. I would be interested to hear your own opinions on this important matter especially [...]
It has been an interesting week to say the least with regards to information security breaches in Ireland. First we heard of the responses to Ruairi Quinn’s question as to how many portable devices belonging to government departments have gone missing this year. So far over 45 devices have been lost. Damien Mulley has a breakdown [...]
Thanks to Digitial Rights Ireland for pointing me in the direction of today’s Irish Time’s editorial calling for the introduction of Data Breach Disclosure laws. It is good to see this issue get such a public platform and raise the awareness as to why I and Digital Rights Ireland have been calling for such laws to [...]
The Irish Examiner broke the news this morning that an Irish online retailer’s computer security was breached by criminals who managed to compromise an undisclosed number of credit card details belonging to Irish customers. The breach was apparently discovered after the criminals tried to test if the cards were active by making small online purchases [...]
The latest edition of the Sunday Business Post has an article on Identity Theft titled Good Management is Essential for Security. What is interesting about this particular article, apart from quoting me in it (even though they spelt my name wrong), is the focus on the article to corporate ID Theft. Corporate ID theft is an [...]
The Thursday the 29th of May edition of the Irish Independent had an interesting article in its Digital Ireland supplement discussing whether or not Ireland should have mandatory data disclosure laws similar to those in the United States. I am quoted in the article in support of the introduction of such legislation while Owen O’Connor and Paul [...]