8 Feb, 2014
The Irishman with a billion people’s privacy to protect – The Independent
From an office above a supermarket in a small town in County Laois, Billy Hawkes is charged with protecting the data and privacy of more than a billion Internet users around the world.
As the Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland, Hawkes has assumed responsibility for safeguarding the data of 990 million Facebook users outside of the United States, not to mention 175 million users of the business-based social media site Linked In and the users of numerous other global Internet services that have moved their European headquarters to Ireland in recent years.
Hawkes, 62, never signed up for this when he took the job of DPC in 2005 when the office was seen as a domestic service.
Read the rest: Billy Hawkes: The Irishman with a billion people’s privacy to protect – News – Gadgets & Tech – The Independent.
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