https://adventuresininformation.com A new podcast about what crawls from under the rock. Information law/FOI, data protection & privacy, politics and governance. Subscribe for news, experiences and insights from data experts. Wed, 25 May 2016 22:16:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ 107572221 Adventures in Information is a new podcast about information law in Ireland. That sounds dry – it will not dwell on the intricacies of the law, but rather what crawls from under rocks when they are disturbed. Rossa McMahon Copyright 2016 Rossa McMahon no freedom,of,information,foi,data,protection,privacy,irish,law,data,retentionA podcast about what crawls from under the rock.adventuresininformation@gmail.comRossa McMahon https://adventuresininformation.com/2016/05/25/episode-2-the-right-to-know/ Wed, 25 May 2016 22:10:39 +0000 http://adventuresininformation.com/?p=274 274Rossa McMahon In the second episode of Adventures in Information, I talk to Gavin Sheridan. Gavin is a journalist whose adventure in information has taken him from using freedom of information as part of the day job to setting up TheStory.ie, which broke stories using FOI, and on to being director of innovation at Storyful. More recently Gavin has set […] rossamcmahon Gavin adventuresininformation@gmail.com (Rossa McMahon)noIn the second episode of Adventures in Information, I talk to Gavin Sheridan. Gavin is a journalist whose adventure in information has taken him from using freedom of information as part of the day job to setting up TheStory.ie, which broke stories using FOI, and on to being director of innovation at Storyful. More recently Gavin has set […]freedom,of,information,foi,data,protection,privacy,irish,law,data,retention https://adventuresininformation.com/2016/04/03/episode-1-the-pod/ Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:59:15 +0000 http://adventuresininformation.com/?p=258 258Rossa McMahon In this first episode of Adventures in Information, I talk to Simon McGarr, a solicitor and part-time data activist about a new government mega-database that received surprisingly little attention – from those that created it, and from almost everyone else. This is about freedom of information, but also children, education, database creation, data protection and even child abuse claims. You might be […] rossamcmahon Photo 18-01-2009, 17 12 17 adventuresininformation@gmail.com (Rossa McMahon)noIn this first episode of Adventures in Information, I talk to Simon McGarr, a solicitor and part-time data activist about a new government mega-database that received surprisingly little attention – from those that created it, and from almost everyone else. This is about freedom of information, but also children, education, database creation, data protection and even child abuse claims. You might be […]freedom,of,information,foi,data,protection,privacy,irish,law,data,retention https://adventuresininformation.com/2016/02/29/a-trailer-and-the-podcast-feed/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:05:56 +0000 http://adventuresininformation.com/?p=85 85Rossa McMahon A trailer to validate and test the RSS feed for submission to iTunes. rossamcmahon adventuresininformation@gmail.com (Rossa McMahon)noA trailer to validate and test the RSS feed for submission to iTunes.freedom,of,information,foi,data,protection,privacy,irish,law,data,retention