Increase in road deaths - RTE tonight at 9:35pm

It was said in jest, but if you are willing to fcuk around and find out then go right ahead, only too happy

Haha you wouldn't say boo to a goose irl.

So true, I’ve never seen a goose that needed a reality check, but my cv would be full of people like yourself

vanilla error

There is no cut off date for GDPR.

It's not vague, but it is, like most regulations, generalised. It doesn't tell every business exactly what to do in every circumstance.

That doesn't mean that you can put anything you like in your policy, as the very large fines issued to Meta and others confirm.

Do we have data on what % of fatalities occur (a) after dark, (b) on local and regional roads? My impression is that a lot of serious accidents are single-vehicle, late-night ones. Much of the enforcement seems to be on National Primary roads and Motorways in daylight hours. Motorways in particular are much safer than other roads so extra enforcement would not be very effective there.

Can we take it then, that you've no difficulty with your own personal information being shared with all and sundry? Your medical history, your browser history, your bank account transactions, your educational history - you've no difficulty with sharing this information with any organisation that reckons they'd like to have a nosey at it?

Presumably you see drivers doing all that dangerous stuff every day too?

Oh yes, of course. The first mentioned, that is, breaking red lights.😁

quite a few single vehicle deaths are not accidents

A classic whataboutery response. Basically because drivers disobey the Roth, then no driver can call out cyclists breaking the Roth.

You do realise that drivers don't go around saying you can't call us out because cyclist also break the rules

Actually, drivers often do say exactly that. The comment was to put in context the 'scary scooters' variation on the 'scary cyclists' stories that we often see around here. It's amazing how many people are able to spot and notice every detail, including the clothing of scary scooters and scary cyclists, but don't apparently see drivers speeding, on their phones, with faulty lights, not indicating, not observing.

😁 blasted phone

Edit. Responding to @magicbastarder post. Is there a problem with Boards not quoting posts?

You're both correct.

But I am too. No one is going to anonymise data. Forget about it, you may get that idea out of your head now. If they make a mistake they have to deal with the DPC. It's easier to just not share the data and avoid any legal stuff.

If someone comes along and makes a change that legally compels them to share anonymised data, well that's probably the end of anyone doing that job.

In answer to your question Andrew: "do I care if people have my data." I don't that much. I get cold called all the time, I get crappy emails, I get very personalized ads etc. My "Data" is already out there, as is yours and probably everyone else's. I think it's better if Garda, Dept Social Welfare, County Councils, Insurance Companies, Courts, etc could all query each other databases (within limits) without having to jump through hoops.

Everyone's GDPR policy is so stupidly different it makes regulating data access near impossible… Ask any Garda who's had to get a statement off someone in the civil service, and you'll know what I'm talking about.

I get the idea in principle, but it's having a very undesirable effect: "I don't have to bother my hole sharing anything with anyone cause GDPR"… that's basically the attitude, and so long as GDPR exists it's going to stay that way, in fact if it was removed I don't think the attitude would change, the damage is done.

Went for a nice little ride out after work today. I took a stop at a village local to me for about 10 minutes and within those 10 minutes I observed:

1. A man casually parking his car on a (hatched) corner of a junction to a sideroad and leaving it there to pick something up in the pharmacy across the road.
2. A white van man not only mounting the footpath but driving up along the footpath at wildly inappropriate speed (he passed about 4 private driveways with no visibility at probably 25-30kph )
3. Multiple cars parked 4 entirely on the footpath.

Anyone trying to argue that the main group causing safety issues on the road is a group other than car drivers is f**** blind and shouldnt be behind a wheel.

Excuse the pun, but the CEO of the RSA had an absolute car crash of an interview. Doesnt inspire confidence.

Anyone know what % of drivers involved in fatal accidents have learner permits, no license or are disqualified?

Anedotely a lot of the type of people who in the past drove on provisionals for years/decades are now not bothering with licenses at all. Nobody ever checks licences. Ive never been asked for a license at a Garda checkpoint even though driving 20+ years.

The laws we have are fine. The problem is enforcement. As said above, a Garda cycling through any major town could give out 100 points in an hour to people on their phones while driving.

Those bodies CAN share data with each other, within very clear and specific limits. Usually, there will be specific enabling legislation, otherwise they can share data, provided they have a legal justification for doing so, and they set out the basis for sharing in their privacy policy. Insurance companies are sharing data with Gardai on a daily basis now. GDPR does not stop data being shared, with appropriate policies, legislation and control.

GDPR DOES stop the kind of uncontrolled datasharing that allowed Cambridge Analytica and Facebook to deliver Trump's 2016 election win and the Brexit referendum win to the highest bidder.

I don't get crappy emails, very personalised ads and cold calls, because I'm careful with my personal data. I make multiple reports to the DPC each year where I see breaches of GDPR.

Yes, it gets used as a crappy excuse, just like the 'elf and safety' excuses. That doesn't mean that GDPR is a problem.

Fascinating to see this video emerging, which Gardai have really never done anything like before, and the new '30 minutes roads policing per shift' rule, both in response to the media interest. Which is a really crappy approach, responsive more to media than to the reality of the rising death toll. They've done tweets about drivers using phones before, but never a video, afaik.

The good thing about the Prime Time show what that it exposed both RSA and AGS as fairly feckin useless. Miriam was very good with Sam, specific and precise without being hectoring or aggressive. Both interviews shows that both organisations had really nothing to offer except a little bit more of the same old, same old.

aye and the controls in our peugeot aren't exactly intuitive either… way too fiddly and distracting