Tag Archives: data protection

More consumers helpless at the hands of negligent Bord Gais Energy and HSE

This week has seen two more instances of customer data losses by two more Irish organisations. These are the 12th and 13th [...]

Personal data at risk at ATM machine in Wexford

A reader e-mailed us in this picture taken of a cash machine in a shop in Wexford from a couple of weeks [...]

Enterprise Ireland staff now working in the banks?

“OFFICIALS FROM Enterprise Ireland and other development agencies are to be sent into the commercial lending sections of the banks to ease [...]

Airtricty added to the Data Protection Hall of Shame!

I first read about this here in a post by Ach go háirithe last week, and it’s since been covered in the [...]

Weekend Consumer News Short Stack

Just a few short points for you to get you through the weekend. Personal Data Loss set to increase in 2009 – [...]

Data Protection – First data loss of 2009 from the HSE

Last year we started an analysis and running total of how many Irish business and organisations loose the personal data of their [...]

More on Data Protection

Following on from my two recent data protection and identity security posts (here and here), I’ve started to keep a running total [...]

Is Your Credit Card At Risk?

Apparently mine was last week. I received a call from my bank telling me that their credit card department had canceled my [...]

How safe is your data and identity?

Last week saw a further incidence of a financial institution losing client information, this time on a USB memory stick. This time, [...]