Government forum to discuss increasing use of personal data
Mr Murphy said it was the Government’s objective for Ireland to be a leader on data protection and data-related issues. The members of the forum include Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon, John Barron, chief technology officer with the Revenue Commissioners, Seamus Carroll, head of civil law reform division at the Department of Justice and Tim Duggan, assistant secretary with the Department of Social Protection. Gary Davis, director of privacy and law enforcement requests with Apple, is also on the forum. Mr Davis is a former deputy data protection commissioner in Ireland. There are also representatives from Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, from the IDA, the Law Society and the National Statistics Board. Chair of Digital Rights Ireland Dr TJ McIntyre and Dr Eoin O’Dell, associate professor, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin are also on the voluntary forum.
(tags: ireland government dri law privacy data data-protection dpc)
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From DataDog. See also “How to collect NGINX metrics”: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/how-to-collect-nginx-metrics/
From Zero to Docker: Migrating to the Whale
nicely detailed writeup of how New Relic are dockerizing
(tags: docker ops deployment packaging new-relic)
Docker with OverlayFS first impressions
a brief howto
(tags: overlayfs docker filesystems ops linux)
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a new sketch algorithm from Baron Schwartz and Preetam Jinka of VividCortex; similar to Count-Min but with last-seen timestamp instead of frequency.
(tags: sketch algorithms estimation approximation sampling streams big-data)