Talk Data To Me (The Castlebridge Podcast)

It's a New Year, and Daragh's found the key to the podcast recording cupboard in the Castlebridge offices. In this episode, Daragh is joined by Dr Blessing Mutiro from Castlebridge and leading Data Protection lawyer Simon McGarr, of McGarr Solicitors, to discuss "webs of belief", the importance of evolving our thinking on data protection to consider collective rights and harms, and the practical risks of rights and duties collapsing due to poorly considered changes in the Digital Omnibus. Show notes can be found on the Castlebridge website. Details of the 2026 Data Leaders' Summit can be found at https://dataleadersummit.ie.

Following on from last month's "Carey's Therapy Session", Castlebridge CEO and lead member of our consulting team Carey Lening chat about coal face experience on recent AI/GenAI projects and why the forecast 30% to 40% failure of GenAI proofs of concept isn't a bad thing if it puts focus on AI Literacy, Data Acumen, and fundamentals of data management as enablers for organisations. (This episode features a Cat Psychologist who was observing the behaviour of our team as part of our health and safety culture).

In this episode of the Talk Data To Me Podcast, Daragh is joined by Carey Lening from our Advisory Services team to talk about the wonderful world of emerging AI Regulation, ethics in AI, and ethics in AI expert advisory. And cats. Cats feature in here somewhere too (it is Carey after all). Cover art for this episode generated by Dall-E. Related content on Carey's personal blog can be found here.

In this episode, Daragh is joined by mentor and Emeritus Advisor to Castlebridge (and all round nice guy to chat with), John Ladley. In this episode, we discuss the much heralded death of Data Governance and find that, much like an elderly Jedi knight, if you strike Data Governance down, it might just become more important than you can possibly imagine. (Muppet-ised episode art courtesy of an AI image generator)

To kick off our rebooted Talk Data to Me podcast, Daragh chats with Tony Ellis from Buckinghamshire Council in the UK about their journey as an early adopter of Microsoft CoPilot. A key theme in the discussion is the importance of fundamental data management disciplines, data nous and acumen in your teams, and figuring out the use cases for these novel technologies. Ultimately - the more things change, the more things stay the same - it's about the people and the process to ensure that data delivers!

It's been a while but the pace of work slowed enough in June for us to record a new episode of the Talk Data To Me Podcast. In this episode Daragh, Carey, and Blessing discuss a range of topics from: Things we learned at conferences in May and early June Interesting challenges ahead arising from Regulatory decisions Coming attractions in the Data Protection and Data Governance tools market The coming convergence of disciplines - and the need to breakdown silos. Supporting resources for this podcast can be found at https://castlebridge.ie/podcast - just look for this episode!

Back after an extended summer hiatus during which NOTHING happened in the world of #Data, #DataProtection, #Brexit, or #DataGovernance, Daragh is joined by Carey Lening, Eoin Cannon, and Katherine O'Keefe to talk about a range of topics. Things we touch on in this episode: The WhatsApp DPC fine decision (and the pros and cons of where we now find ourselves) The UK's bizarre approach to making and breaking deals on things that are central to a chunk of their economy. The difference between digital literacy, data literacy, and knowing how to get stuff done with data. Check out our other podcast episodes at https://castlebridge.ie/podcasts

In this episode, Daragh, Peter and Katherine take the news of ransomware attacks and discuss the importance of a data strategy and data literacy for organisations of all sizes. Topics addressed include data strategy, data literacy, and the value of data to organisations (and to criminals). Useful Resources Here's some links to blog posts and other resources relevant to the topics covered in this month's podcast: The Infonomics of Ransomware (blog post) Management Literacy is Data Literacy (blog post) Data Driven Business - Get your foundations right (blog post) The resource page for the podcast is here and will be updated with relevant content as we publish it!

In this episode of the Talk Data To Me Podcast, the Castlebridge team talk about the social project that is VACCINE CERTIFICATES.\r\n\nWe discuss the practical, ethical, legal, and fundamental data management issues that these proposed initiatives can raise. Key questions like:\r\n\n1) Do we need a Database of all the Pricks?\r\n\n2) What are the conditions for terminating the Tagging of the Jabbed?\r\n\n3) What safeguards will be rolled out to prevent these technologies being used to discriminate against left handed ginger people?\r\n\nAnd we only mention \"BlockChain\" ONCE!!\r\n\nJoshua Hoshva has a supporting blog post here: castlebridge.ie/2021/04/16/whats-…accine-passports/\r\n

In the first episode of Season 2 of the Talk Data To Me Podcast, Daragh O Brien is joined by Katherine O'Keefe (@okeefekat on twitter) and Carey Lening (@privacat on twitter) to discuss: Data Adequacy for the UK post Brexit The Data Protection & Infosec Snafu that is Clubhouse The role of data governance in navigating these kinds of issues! The resources link for this episode on the Castlebridge website is here.  Useful Links For Topics Discussed Daragh wrote about Data Protection by Design and getting data governance fundamentals right to support data protection earlier this month  We discussed the possibilities for a Data Adequacy decision in a blog post before Christmas (predates EU Commission Draft Adequacy Decision) UK Minister with responsibility for data protection said the quiet bits out loud in the Financial Times, and a summary is available here without having to navigate the paywall. Suffice it to say that the Commission's view that Adequacy is possible if the UK makes no changes to DP laws and implementation appears to be on shaky foundations already. Daragh spoke to Newstalk about Clubhouse - news coverage and link to the podcast episode is here.

Daragh and Joshua from the Castlebridge team are joined this month by Alexander Hanff from our friends in Think Privacy in Sweden. The topic of the podcast was the challenges in the second wave of tech solutionism for pandemic response. The topics discussed included the use of AI tools for social distancing enforcement, the importance of DPIAs that ACTUALLY follow through on things, and the issues of data quality and data governance that can arise with relatively new technologies with high error rates. A key question raised is this: if a mix of technologies with varying error rates are combined and sold as a solution for public liability risks in a public health crisis and they fail... who is responsible and liable? And is the social and societal impact worth it if we are just implementing public health theatre when the investment and resources might better be spent on Public Health Doctors and Public Health Informatics? Note: Alexander gets a bit passionate so there might be some profanity...

Daragh is joined on this month's podcast by Andrew Carroll from the Office of the Data Protection Commission and the Castlebridge Children's Data Subject Matter Expert, Róisín. We discuss the rights children have over their personal data, the DPC's consultation on Children's rights, and some practical things that kids can do to be aware of their data protection rights. The information page for this podcast is at castlebridge.ie/2020/10/21/talk-d…10-watch-the-kid/

Episode 9 of Talk Data To Me is a special episode featuring our Emeritus Advisor Michelle Dennedy talking about data strategy, data value, and the future confluence and convergence of Data Privacy, Data Strategy, and Data Ethics. We talk "Swimming Pool Metaphors" and the need to avoid unexpected floaters

A special edition of the "Talk Data to Me" Podcast where Daragh and Peter are joined by Simon McGarr of DataCompliance Europe and McGarr Solicitors to talk about the potentially tricky challenges ahead for Northern Ireland in a post Brexit, post Schrems 2 data transfer environment. While the focus has been on avoiding a hard border for goods, we need to ensure we avoid a hard data border as well on the island of Ireland.

Daragh, Katherine, and Peter discuss turbulence and disruption and the importance of good data practices in this month's podcast. Topics we touch on include: The Schrems 2 ruling and our take on what needs to be done Covid data disruption - what that means for managing through challenging times Data Ethics - hype or hope? A key theme from our discussion is that, in turbulent times, it is important for organisations to get a handle on what data they have, where it is, and how they are using it. That requires a clear business strategy for navigating in turbulent times, an understanding of your data strategy and required data capabilities, and an appreciation of the impact of choices you will make in respect of the ethical challenges and opportunities in your business model. We also touch on the opportunity for European businesses arising from the turbulence in cross border data transfers to step up and provide alternative technologies. Additional resources related to this podcast can be found on the podcast landing page on the Castlebridge website.

On the 1st anniversary episode of the podcast, and the 11th anniversary of Castlebridge starting as a business, Katherine and Daragh chat on this month's podcast about Data Governance. They explore: What it is What it means How it relates to Data Strategy How it relates to Data Protection And then, inevitably, they discuss the fate of Standard Contractual Clauses and Privacy Shield in the recent CJEU case through the lens of Data Governance and the Irish Art of Understatement. For full details and show notes, visit https://castlebridge.ie/2020/07/23/talk-data-to-me-episode-7-the-art-of-understatement/

Daragh and Peter take a whistle stop tour through questions of data strategy and business strategy and the need for organisations to stop being distracted by technology shiny and get down to the fundamentals of defining and managing their data as a core asset that is essential to drive value, deliver services, serve customers, and make money. Recent blog posts here and elsewhere related to this topic can be found: Here, by Daragh O Brien More here, by Daragh O Brien A call to action from John Ladley and Tom Redman Daragh, writing on TDAN.com Peter, talking about contact tracing and technology

In this episode of the Talk Data To Me podcast, Daragh (@cbridge_chief) is joined by Katherine O'Keefe (@okeefekat), Peter Davey, and Katie and Joshua from the team to talk about the following topics: The European Data Protection Board's Guidance on Consent The EDBP published updated guidance on consent this month. Katie and Joshua took a look at it to tease out the potential implications. The TL;DR is that it reaffirms things people should already know and the design of consent mechanisms is going to be a key area for consideration by data controllers. DPC Cookies Sweep The DPC released the findings of their Cookie Sweep at the end of April. The team took a look this past month at the current "state of the nation" as part of some ongoing research (both Katie and Joshua are PhD students in the Adapt Centre in Trinity College working with Castlebridge). The consensus: a lot done, more to do, and organisations may be paying for the design choices of industry vendors. The consent guidance is also relevant here! Remote Working Sea Change Covid-19 response has seen the unthinkable happen in many organisations, with staff having to work remotely. Organisations are starting to work out how to manage staff in this new normal. That has some data governance and data protection implications, as well as presenting a huge organisational change management challenge. Peter and Daragh lead the discussion on this topic, and there is an interesting balance to strike between monitoring, management, and mentoring. Organisations need to decide what data they need to track performance and how they will measure it without crossing the line into the private space or treating staff like robotic units of production. Castlebridge's guidance on Data Protection and Change Management issues in remote monitoring of staffcan be found on the Castlebridge website.

On a special edition of the Castlebridge PodCast (Episode title: "Damn it Jim, I'm an Engineer, not a Doctor"), Daragh O Brien (not a doctor) and Katherine O'Keefe (not that kind of doctor) are joined by Phil Booth of MedConfidential, Pat Walshe (@PrivacyMatters on Twitter) and Ronan Lupton (Barrister, and @RonanLupton on Twitter) to talk about the ethical, practical, and legal issues that arise with some of the proposed uses for technology and data in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. There's a lot to unpack as we tease through some of the challenges, opportunities, and risks that need to be navigated in using the significantly enhanced capabilities of the modern information age in the current crisis. It's all about trust, trustworthiness, and taking t-shirt wearing techbros with a pinch of salt. And Dr Michael J Ryan makes a guest appearance at the end.

In this episode, Daragh O Brien, Katherine O'Keefe and Elaine Comyn discuss the "delay" of the launch of Facebook dating, the mythological threat of baby snatchers at the new National Children's Hospital and therefore, the importance of Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs). To know more about: - Our public training: castlebridge.ie/events/ - Facebook dating app request to the DPC: castlebridge.ie/2020/02/13/stupid-cupid/