For the last almost 4 years, the bureaucrats in Brussels have been discussing the way the privacy laws in the European Union should be harmonised. December last year they finally reached agreement on the new general data protection regulation (gdpr) that will, if formally adopted, replace the 95/46/EC data protection directive and all national laws that implemented this directive in their national frameworks.
The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) organised a 2 day training session on the 22nd and 23rd of February to bring me and other privacy pros up to steam on this new opportunity for job security in the coming years.
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The Shamrock story
Today I proudly launch my company Shamrock Information Security.
Why this name? Unmistakably the name has an Irish origin shrouded in Irish mystery, tradition and religious history.
But what does this have to do with modern day information security?
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Expect the unexpected
Maybe I asked for this to happen, maybe not.
Unmistakably the name of my company “Shamrock Information Security” has an Irish origin, so the response I got from the 2nd person who read my badge on the conference I visited today in Brussels should not have come as a surprise.
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