Bank Holiday edition. Do Bank Holidays have any meaning any more? This week it's mostly the sadly all
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| October 26 · Issue #105 · View online |
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Bank Holiday edition. Do Bank Holidays have any meaning any more? This week itâs mostly the sadly all-too-familiar spectacle of the Irish state painting itself into ever more surreal corners in an attempt to avoid acknowledging that it has to obey the law. đź
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Iâm really not sure giving âŚ@⊠users the terrifying notification below, then the âall clearâ above seconds later, does much for their confidence in the process âšď¸ (This even happened once while I was giving a talk!) https://t.co/0jWVT6Op93
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Principals in affected schools were told that the app was not needed as âindividualised risk assessmentâ would be carried out in the event of any confirmed cases of the virus popping up.
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Teachers in schools with positive Covid-19 cases asked by HSE to turn off contact tracing app while in work
TEACHERS in schools with positive cases of Covid-19 have been urged by the HSE to turn off their contact tracing app while in work, the Irish Sun has learned. Principals in affected schools were toâŚ
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A few observations on yet another attempt by the state to continue its policy of abuse by bureaucracy and the exercise of information-based power. Yes, itâs the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020.
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Firstly for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
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Sending your minister into the houses of the Oireachtas to mention consultation with the Data Protection Commission without clarifying that said consultation appears to have consisted of the DPC saying âI wouldnât do that if I were youâ is not a winning short, medium or long term strategy. |
You canât take some bits of personal data, in one format held by one entity, and say the GDPR applies to them while claiming it doesnât apply to the underlying records and all the rest of the personal data held by your department. Individualsâ rights follow the data, wherever it goes and in whatever format it is held.
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Article 23 of the GDPR allows some restriction of rights in very particular circumstances and with conditions which must be met. Reading the entire Article is always a good place to start. |
Similarly, the Irish Times could have read the legislation which purports to âsealâ records for thirty years before writing a condescending explainer which mistakes state policy for law. (Top tip: go to the print version of the Act and use Ctrl-F to search for the word âsealâ). |
Dismissing the rights found in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the General Data Protection Regulation with a sentence beginning âSome lawyers say âŚâ is possibly something that should have been caught by a sub-editor with knowledge of the area before it was published.
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If the Taoiseach has tweeted a link to your flawed âexplainerâ of an extraordinarily contentious issue and described it as âExcellent journalismâ, if government TDs are using it as a talking point and in replies to emails from their constituents perhaps that should prompt some editorial reflection on a number of issues. |
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This article will make a good example for my class on epistemology (how knowledge is created). The omissions, errors, unsupported assertions & framing of the narrative can allow for examination of the ways in which the powerful take control of what can be known
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For the government in general.
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When youâve forced a piece of legislation through the houses of the Oireachtas after manufacturing an artificial deadline, while refusing to consider any opposition amendments, offering up increasingly incoherent arguments during the progress of the Bill and hiding behind privilege to attempt to smear survivorsâ groups and their advocates, only to be told by the independent Supervisory Authority that the envisaged outcomes will be in breach of European law and then to be rebuked by the President as he signs the Bill into law then itâs apparent youâve done something very wrong.
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The Prison Service should perhaps familiarise itself with the powers of the independent Supervisory Authority before issuing peculiar statements such as this.
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In response to questions on the matter, the IPS has denied that Ms Dixonâs notification is a ruling or that the process carried out by the DPC over the last 18 months was an âinvestigationâ.
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Prison security systems violate data law, DPC rules
Prison security systems violate data law, DPC rules
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It definitely could.
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Highly unusual ransom case underway here in Finland: a private psychotherapy clinic was hacked, and the therapist notes for maybe even 40,000 patients were stolen. Now the attacker has emailed the victims, asking each for 200 ⏠ransom in Bitcoin.
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The Hellenic DPA issued two fines to politicians, one for âŹ2,000 for unsolicited political communication by email and one for âŹ1,000 for unsolicited political communication by SMS. |
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âThe Government has not explained why denying individuals who were subjected to forced family separation access to their own transcripts of evidence and personal and family records is a necessary and proportionate measure to safeguard the effective operation of this or any Commission or the future cooperation of witnesses. Surely, such a blanket denial of access to personal data does the opposite: it undermines the purpose of this Commission, which was to respond to complaints of unlawful interference with private and family life, denial of personal and family identity, and denial of information about loved ones who are disappeared or deceased.â Dr Maeve O'Rourke: Hereâs a full analysis of the problems with the Governmentâs Mother and Baby Homes Billâ
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âIt would be a perverse legacy for the government to legislate to deprive people of data they so sorely wish to access about themselves and open Ireland up to the risk of fines on foot of enforcement by the European Commission in order to do so.â From âMother and Baby Home Commission records: An EU Law Perspectiveâ by Simon McGarr.
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âBecause I cover the app space thoroughly, Iâve learned to be skeptical of everything I download on my phoneâbut for some reasons, I was still shocked to see, with my own two eyes, multiple ad networks getting their hands on my very personal dataâincluding my specific prescriptions. As I dug deeper, what became even more shocking was that this wasnât only 100 percent legal, it was 100 percent legal because it exploited very obvious loopholes in government regulationâand the internet itself.â From âGoodRx Shares My Prescriptions With Third Partiesâand Itâs Perfectly Legalâ by Shoshana Wodinsky in Gizmodo. Itâs important to note that this may be perfectly legal in the US but it is not perfectly legal in the EU. Though that doesnât mean it isnât happening.
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