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Daragh @ Castlebridge
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CEO at Castlebridge (https://castlebridge.ie). Also on Mastodon (https://mastodon.ie/@CastlebridgeChief) Talks about data from the business perspective. Doing a doctorate in #DataGovernance because life just wasn’t busy enough. Also: Aikido keeps me sane.
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And boy I love the AI Slop background image as I wait (now
35 minutes) for the verification code to land.
Photo of IAPP website with borked account confirmation process and, more painfully, a bizarre abstract background image that is likely AI generated as it lacks any coherence of design or concept. It’s a green background with shields and faces and keys and other nonsense. I won’t waste your time trying to describe it further.
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Also: selection of NACE code is mandatory for a business, but there are only 17 entries and one of those is “Private Household with Employed Persons”. Nothing like “Business or other Management Consulting Services (NACE70.22).

So, that data will be useless for any form of reporting.
Photo of employer registration screen for MyFuture Fund. The requirement is to “please select the NACE code as used for your company’s registration in Ireland”. A drop down list is shown. It has 17 entries to choose from. The options don’t actually match NACE codes and there is no option for “Business Services” or “Management Consulting”
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Minor correction: It’s Section 3(4) of the Road Traffic Act
A screenshot from a presentation featuring a background image of the controller console from KITT, the car in 1980s TV Show “Knight Rider”. Foreground is a grey box containing text of Section 3(4) of the Irish Road Traffic Act “ANTA RANE 900B0 (4) The Minister may, to avoid the impairment or interference with the driving capacity or capabilities of the driver of a mechanically propelled vehicle, make regulations in relation to the restriction or prohibition in mechanically propelled vehicles in public places of the use of— (a) a mobile phone (other than in the circumstances referred to in subsection (1)), (b) an in-vehicle communication device, (c) information equipment, or (d) entertainment equipment. Source: S3(4) Road Traffic Act 2006 (as amended) Image By Tabercil - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.nho?curid=14927883
July 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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None shall pass.
Two kittens sitting on a red carpeted staircase. One kitten is grey the other is ginger tabby.
January 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Here’s the slide pack from the time I got the late #LarryEnglish to do an Information Quality Masterclass in Dublin back in 2006.

In March next year I’ll be helming another #DataLeaders Summit in Wexford (summit.castlebridge.info).
Photo of title page for conference slide pack for “The Essentials of Information Quality Improvement” delivered by Larry English at the Irish Computer Society’s ICT Expo in May 2006.
December 29, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Doing a tidy in my office at home (instead of doing the research that was scheduled today). Found this from almost 16 years ago.
I did two talks at this conference. One on #DataQuality and #DataProtection and another on #DataQuality and #Strategy.

Content still 100% relevant today!
Cover of a conference pack from 2009. The title of the conference was “Developing Best Practice for information and data quality management” A diagram showing the four perspectives of Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard strategy map (financial, customer, internal, learning and growth). They are presented as layers from top to bottom on the slide in the order financial, customer, internal, learning & growth. Lightning bolt icons illustrate where data quality has impacts across these strategic perspectives. Photo of introductory slides to a presentation on information quality and data protection from March 2009
December 29, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Bluntly: this is illegal. It violates a very fundamental principle in #GDPR and in #DataGovernance - separation of duties / independence of DPO.

There’s case law and extensive guidance on this principle under GDPR
Extract from EDPB guidance on role of DPO. Text reads: “The absence of conflict of interests is closely linked to the requirement to act in an independent manner. Although DPOs are allowed to have other functions, they can only be entrusted with other tasks and duties provided that these do not give rise to conflicts of interests. This entails in particular that the DPO cannot hold a position within the organisation that leads him or her to determine the purposes and the means of the processing of personal data. Due to the specific organisational structure in each organisation, this has to be considered case by case. As a rule of thumb, conflicting positions within the organisation may include senior management positions (such as chief executive, chief operating, chief financial, chief medical officer, head of marketing department, head of Human Resources or head of IT departments) but also other roles lower down in the organisational structure if such positions or roles lead to the determination of purposes and means of processing. In addition, a conflict of interests may also arise for example if an external DPO is asked to represent the controller or processor before the Courts in cases involving data protection issues.”
November 30, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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So, this is how the holder of the post of Information Commissioner in the U.K. response to a valid comment by a highly respected #DataProtection expert when invited to comment on “what does privacy mean to you”.

Not exactly the kind of response you’d expect.
Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Jon Baines responding to an ICO post about their undertanding of Privacy. Jon is pointing out that Privacy is not actually what the Commissioner regulates, rather it’s Data Protection. Screen shot of the response to Jon Baines comment by John Edwards, the UK’s Information Commissioner. One word: “Yawn” Obviously this sparked some reaction from data protection practitioners on LinkedIn
November 28, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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I occasionally look at the cookie banner behaviour of sites that people *have* to use. This is the site of Ireland’s National Car Testing Service.
It pre-ticks boxes for consent (illegally) and then you can’t actually set those choices and have to click accept to move on (invalid consent). #GDPR
November 27, 2024 at 11:33 PM