Over 100 Computers Lost By Irish Government in 5 Years
The SiliconRepublic published a story highlighting how questioning from Ruairi Quinn, spokesperson on Education and Science for the Labour party, exposed how over 100 laptop and desktop computers, 14 Blackberry phones and 11 portable media devices were lost over the past 5 years. While there are no details available as to whether or not any sensitive […]
Today is Data Protection Day
Today, January 28th, marks the second International Data Protection Day. Throughout North America and the European Union there are numerous activities to mark the day. In Ireland the Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin in association with the Data Protection Commissioner launched a new educational resource on data protection and privacy aimed at second level schools. […]
Irish Data Retention to Include Emails and Internet Browsing
Last night’s RTE news coverage had a piece highlighting the Irish Government’s decision to extend the current data retention legislation to include details of emails, internet chat messages and internet access. While the content of emails and chat messages will not be stored, the proposed legislation will force ISPs to record who sent/recieved an email and […]
Privacy Increasingly Under Threat
Privacy International have published their “2007 International Privacy Ranking” report where they rank how well countries protect the privacy of their citizens. Ireland does not rate well and according to the report there is “systemic failure to uphold safeguards” within this county. One of the key areas that the report highlights with respect to Ireland […]
Brian Honan comments on UK Revenue Data Loss Disaster
Last Friday’s edition of the Irish Times contains an article on the recent loss by the UK’s Revenue and Customers service of the personal details of 25 million people. The details belong to all families in the UK with children under 16 years of age and in receipt of child welfare benefit. The information, which was contained […]
Yet More Data Breaches in The Irish Civil Service Discovered
A recent Sunday Tribune article has brought to light a number of security breaches in both the Department of Foreign Affairs and also the Office of the Revenue Commissioners. These follows on foot of earlier disclosures of other breaches in the civil service which can I Blogged about here and here. This time the breaches relate […]
More Privacy Breaches in Irish Civil Service
A recent story in the Irish Independent Newspaper reveals that a senior manager within the Department of Social and Family Affairs has resigned after having being discovered providing newspapers with personal information belonging to people who provided that information in confidence to the department. It appears that this was not a unique occurence and investigations within the […]
Call for Breach Disclosure Laws in Ireland
The Friday edition of the Irish Times dated the 31st of August 2007 contains an article where Brian Honan, Senior Consultant for BH Consulting, states that at the forthcoming “Privacy in the 21st Century” seminar, which is part of Global Security Week, he will be calling on the Irish Government to look at implementing breach […]