Passport Control?
There has been a lot of coverage regarding the use of fake Irish passports by the team that assassinated a senior Hamas official Mahmud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month. Details of how or what types of passports were used are still unavailable and it is not clear yet whether the passports were of the old type […]
Speaking at the 2nd Annual Data Protection Conference
The Second Annual Data Protection Conference which is run by the Irish Computer Societywill be held this year on Thursday the 25th of March in the Radison BLU Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8. I will be speaking at the conference as will Billy Hawkes – Data Protection Commissioner Bruce Scheier – BT Linda Ni Chualladh […]
Lost Passports and Identity Theft
On a recent broadcast of the RTE Radio 1 Drive Time program I was interviewed regarding the risks posed to people having their identity stolen as a result of their passport going missing/stolen. According to this Sunday Tribune Article over 5,000 passports were lost last year. The show is available online and my interview is 48 mins […]
Bord Gais Loses Laptop with Details of 75,000 Customers
Bord Gais recently announcedthat they lost the personal details of 75,000 customers on a laptop that was stolen, with three others, from one of their offices. What is very disappointing is the laptop with the details of the 75,000 customers was not encrypted. Given the huge publicity last year over the loss of unencrypted laptops […]
Upcoming ICS Data Protection Conference
Data Protection Day, which is an initiative of the Council of Europe with the support of the European Commission, was celebrated on January 28th by 27 European countries, the United States and Canada. The day was created to raise awareness and generate discussion about data protection and privacy rights and best practices. The Irish Computer Society celebrated […]
Register Now for The 4th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Ireland 2009 Seminar
The 4th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Ireland 2009 seminar is due to be held on the 18th and 19th of February 2009. I will be giving and Interactive case study on Identity Theft at the seminar. As a speaker I am happy to be able to pass on a discounted rate to those of […]
Apparently This is National Identity Fraud Prevention Week
It appears that this week is National Identity Fraud Prevention Week. This is the fourth year for the initiative in the UK and the first year for it running in Ireland. In the UK it is supported by organisations such as CIFAS, The Association of Chief Police Officers, The Metropolitan Police, The Royal Mail and The Serious […]
Keeping Data safe at work
Today’s Sunday Independent ran a piece in their business supplement on what companies should be doing to protect the data stored on various devices such as PCs and laptops. I am quoted in the article and highlight that companies need to develop their data classification and handling policy and educate their staff in same before […]
Staff Issues Regarding Data Leakage
Today’s Irish Independent has an article “The Perils of Identity Theft” citing me on some of the issues that staff need to be aware of when dealing with sensitive personal information belonging to the customers of their employer. We all need to be careful with the data we access in order to do our job […]
Irish Times Adds Her Voice to Calls for Data Breach Disclosure Laws
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 […]