It’s a requirement that public bodies sharing personal data, and relying on the provisions of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to do so, have an agreement in place first.
The Data Sharing Agreement re the Public Services Card Read More »
There is an excellent article by Elaine Edwards online (but not in the paper) regarding a pensioner whose pension payments have been stopped because she declined to submit to the biometric scanning and so on involved in being given an
The Public Services Card- An ID database and ID card Read More »
The UK government has issued the outlines of a new Data Protection Bill.
Court: UK Court of Appeal March 2017 Facts: The Plaintiff suffered a head injury from an assault.
Medical Negligence*- Case Report on hospital liability Read More »
Reputedly, corporate America values conformity, hence the maxim – “Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM” – applied to the purchase of materials or services.
In January 2012, in the case of Digital Rights Ireland Ltd.
Digital Rights Ireland: Application for a Trial of Preliminary Issue Read More »
If you do not know about the personal data you hold, you cannot comply with the GDPR.
There is probably a book yet to be written on the interplay between the General Data Protection Regulation and Brexit, but some elements can be seen now.
The EU deferred the application of the GDPR personal data rules for two years to allow organisations to make the necessary internal changes to reach compliance.
When the EU passed the GDPR as directly effective law it deferred the implementation of the GDPR for two years to allow organisations to make the necessary changes to comply with the law.
Article 25 GDPR requires organisations to adopt privacy by design and by default.
Less than one year from now every business holding (i.e., processing) personal data will have undergone a significant process of internal change or will, more likely than not, be in breach of the GDPR.
If you belong to some form of “circulating library” of personal data, less than one year from now you will encounter an excruciating dilemma.
GDPR; The Peril of holding data without good title Read More »
Phishing warning- People are apparently receiving these emails purporting to be relating to McGarr Solicitors from a domain called solicitors.ie.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes fully into effect on 25th May2018.
