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08/04/10 - Twenty First Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 2009 |
2009 was a year of change - both actual and promised - in the legal framework governing data protection.
The Lisbon Treaty embedded data protection as a fundamental right of European Union citizens. It provided the basis for an extension of data protection rights into all areas of EU activity. It gave new authority to the European Parliament as co-legislator in this area.
[view more...] Published on 08 April 2010 |
| Sixteenth Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 2004 |
In presenting this sixteenth annual report - my fifth - outlining the activities of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner for 2004, I feel it is an opportune moment to outline to the Oireachtas my general reflections on where data protection stands in the early part of the 21st century.
[view more...] Published on 19 April 2005 |
| Fifteenth Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 2003 |
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has a wide range of responsibilities associated with the supervision of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. In general terms, data protection places obligations on those holding information about people - data controllers - and gives everyone the right to find out what information is being kept about themselves. This means that my Office carries out two main functions.
[view more...] Published on 22 April 2004 |
| Fourteenth Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 2002 |
I am pleased to present the fourteenth Annual Report in relation to the work of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner since it was established in 1989. It outlines the activities of my Office during 2002. In the current information era the concepts of privacy and data protection are on occasions put forward as a barrier to progress. On the contrary I feel strongly that for the information society to succeed it is vital that good data protection practices are in place.
[view more...] Published on 17 April 2003 |
| Thirteenth Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 2001 |
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is engaged in a diverse range of activities, both domestically and at international level. This section gives a comprehensive overview of the activities of my Office in 2001, with some emphasis upon a number of areas which I consider to be of particular interest.
[view more...] Published on 01 May 2002 |
| Twelfth Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 2000 |
I am pleased to present this twelfth Annual Report in relation to the work of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner since it was established in 1989. I was appointed Data Protection Commissioner in September 2000 and accordingly this annual report for 2000 also refers to matters considered by my predecessor, Mr Fergus Glavey, whose seven year term as Commissioner then concluded. I am happy to record that the work undertaken both by Mr Glavey and the first Commissioner, Mr Donal Lenihan, has enabled this office to work in a co-operative and effective manner and I intend to carry on that tradition.
[view more...] Published on 01 August 2001 |
| Eleventh Annual of the Data Protection Commissioner 1999 |
Data protection law and practice are all about securing respect for the individual's right to private life. The right to private life has long been recognised in human rights charters such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1953. European data protection authorities are acutely conscious of the human rights origins of data protection, as can be seen from their comments in Appendix 5 on the recently mooted charter of fundamental rights in the European Union: “Inclusion of data protection among the fundamental rights of Europe would make such protection a legal requirement throughout the Union and reflect its increasing importance in the information society.”
[view more...] Published on 01 August 2000 |
| Tenth Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 1998 |
Ireland is now very much in the information age. The Data Protection Act, 1988 can rightly be seen as one part of the infrastructure needed to underpin the new 'information society' which is characterised by instant processing of the information flows needed for access to, and delivery of, private and public services. To the extent that people are being asked, and indeed required, to provide personal information in these contexts, it is reasonable that safeguards be put in place to uphold the individual's right to privacy and to control over their personal details, and it is precisely this protection that the Act provides.
[view more...] Published on 01 October 1999 |
| Ninth Annual Report of the Data Protection Commissioner 1997 |
The Data Protection Act, 1988 is now in its tenth year and while in my view it has served its purpose well the time is clearly opportune to reiterate the respect for privacy as a fundamental human right which is implicit in the 1988 Act while providing for the application of information technology in ways which were never foreseen at the time. In this context the Government's commitment to introduce amending legislation to transpose EU Directive 95/46/EC on the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the Free Movement of Such Data is to be welcomed.
[view more...] Published on 01 November 1998 |
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