Ohalo Blog

Kyle DuPont
Apr 7, 2021 - #Data privacy, #Construction, #CPRA, #GDPR, #Safety, #HSE, #OSHA, #Discovering safety

The Ohalo Scrapbook Number 7 - Helping improve safety in the built environment

Bringing better safety outcomes to the construction industry to get workers home safely to their families
Read more...

Kyle DuPont
Feb 23, 2021 - #Data privacy, #Construction, #Press release, #GDPR, #Safety, #HSE, #Discovering safety

Press release: Wood Group Partners with Ohalo to Deliver Better Safety Outcomes to the Construction Industry

Bringing better safety outcomes to the construction industry to get workers home safely to their families
Read more...

Ed Goold
Dec 14, 2020 - #Data privacy, #Privacy by design, #Apple, #GDPR, #CCPA

The Ohalo Scrapbook number 6: new Apple feature blazes trail towards privacy as a core market value

Last week Apple confirmed that applications may be banned from the App Store if they don't meet Apple's new App Tracking Transparency feature. Is this the first major sign of privacy emerging as a core market value?
Read more...

Ed Goold
Nov 20, 2020 - #Data privacy, #Data protection, #Data minimisation, #Wearables, #Pandemic response

The Ohalo Scrapbook number 5: personal data liability via wearable tracking technologies in a covid context

A few thoughts on the increasing popularity of wearable tracking technologies that a number of organisations are now using in their pandemic response to measure and halt transmission. These would seem to open up major personal data liabilities under data privacy legislation. Is data minimisation the correct response?
Read more...

Kyle DuPont
Nov 4, 2020 - #Enterprise, #NLP, #Machine learning, #Applications

The Ohalo Scrapbook number 4: NLP enterprise applications taking off

Machine learning and NLP has really taken off in the enterprise over the past couple of years. Our Data X-Ray product heavily rely on the advances in machine learning to deliver everything from privacy preserving data science pipelines for safety reports to identifying documents for data retention project implementations. What are others seeing out there in enterprise applications of NLP?
Read more...

Kyle DuPont
Oct 19, 2020 - #Enterprise, #Data privacy, #Shout out, #Appreciation

The Ohalo Scrapbook number 3: the importance of the folks in the middle at big enterprises - a shout out

Working with big enterprises means that you’re fortunate to get to solve big problems but getting there can be a challenge. A quick shout out from Kyle to those people and teams who have made it happen for Ohalo and the Data X-Ray.
Read more...

Ed Goold
Oct 14, 2020 - #ICO, #contact tracing, #GDPR, #Personal data, #Regulation, #Pandemic response

The Ohalo Scrapbook number 2: hospitality, data gathering, and contact tracing - pandemic data privacy

Issues have started to emerge around data gathering in hospitality for contact tracing. Are the organisations providing these services data privacy compliant? Their privacy policies alone have some pretty big issues...
Read more...

Ed Goold
Oct 1, 2020 - #ICO, #Fining discount, #GDPR, #Personal data, #Regulation, #Pandemic response

The Ohalo Scrapbook number 1: new ICO fining discount

Our first video in a new series - The Ohalo Scrapbook - on a new ICO early payment discount in the context of the massive expansion of personal data under regulation in the pandemic response.
Read more...

Kyle DuPont
Sep 14, 2020 - #Data privacy, #Data protection, #Safety tech, #Health and safety, #Redaction, #Data intelligence, #Anonymisation

Saving lives

A short story about our engagement with Lloyd's Register and the Health and Safety Executive (the health and safety regulator for the UK).
Read more...

Kyle DuPont
Aug 15, 2019 - #Cybersecurity, #Government, #GCHQ, #NCSC, #Wayra, #Telefonica

Press release: Ohalo begins work with GCHQ and NCSC

Press release: Ohalo is pleased to announce its participation in the GCHQ/NCSC/Wayra programme to enhance cybersecurity in the UK and abroad.
Read more...