Saturday, 21 February 2009

Of peer-reviews, checks and balances

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Matron still isn't really ready to revisit the Telecoms Package, so by way of an appetizer, she's decided to veer off-topic for a mo...
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Thursday, 19 February 2009

The Facebook conundrum - do we need to be protected from ourselves?

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Gosh, what a week it's been. Matron just spent all day wading through the European Council's common position on the Telecoms Package...
Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Data retention and the incredible duplicity of events

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You wait for ages for an irrational and totally see-through official position on data retention and then two come along at once. Following h...
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Friday, 13 February 2009

You turn if you want...

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Matron was slightly amused to learn that the European Commission decided to disband the Data Protection Expert Group it set up as recently a...
Thursday, 12 February 2009

Is time running out for privacy notices?

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After launching a consultation on a draft code of practice for privacy notices last month, the ICO has now published the results of an onli...
Wednesday, 11 February 2009

The imagery of surveillance

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Has anyone else noticed the increasing pervasiveness of surveillance imagery that is cropping up all around us? It started with the most rec...
Tuesday, 10 February 2009

When Irish eyes are smiling - NOT

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The waiting is over and the ECJ has finally delivered its decision on the validity of the Data Retention Directive . Unsurprisingly, it fol...