>”The organisation said it was able to buy data about people living in Limerick and Dublin and whether they’re “deprived’, “struggling” or “affluent”.”
This is from Pobal, the Deprivation Index map. It is the only Deprivation Index map that exists.
It is aggregate at a Small Area level. What is a Small Area?
>”Small Areas are areas of population generally comprising between 80 and 120 dwellings created by The National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) on behalf of the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) in consultation with CSO. Small Areas were designed as the lowest level of geography for the compilation of statistics in line with data protection and generally comprise either complete or part of townlands or neighbourhoods.”
The OSi and CSO, and Pobal that use Census data to make their Deprivation map, aggregate data into Small Areas which comprises 80 and 120 dwellings. This anonymises individuals and addresses, obeying privacy and GDPR requirements.
It seems someone at GeoDirectory took the aggregated Pobal and CSO Census data attached it to GeoDirectory address points.
However, it still is at aggregated data, it’s not identifying individuals or single addresses. It just means all the address points (80 – 120 addresses) will have the same deprivation / affluence values or Census data assigned to them.
It appears someone at the ICCL did not understand this important point, they mistakenly think the GeoDirectory identifies individual persons or addresses. *This is technically impossible.*
To Summarise:
*It is technically impossible for GeoDirectory to sell deprivation / affluence data of individuals or provide the Census returns of single households, as the underlying Pobal and CSO data is aggregated at a Small Areas level (80 to 120 dwellings).*
I must email The Irish Council for Civil Liberties to tell them they are wasting their time.
Sadly the owners are not likely to be jailed under the malicious Fine Gael government despite their business model being a clear intentional breach of the law. If GDPR was enforced they would have been shut down on day one.
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I think I understand what is going on:
>”The organisation said it was able to buy data about people living in Limerick and Dublin and whether they’re “deprived’, “struggling” or “affluent”.”
This is from Pobal, the Deprivation Index map. It is the only Deprivation Index map that exists.
[https://maps.pobal.ie/WebApps/DeprivationIndices/index.html](https://maps.pobal.ie/WebApps/DeprivationIndices/index.html)
It is aggregate at a Small Area level. What is a Small Area?
>”Small Areas are areas of population generally comprising between 80 and 120 dwellings created by The National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) on behalf of the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) in consultation with CSO. Small Areas were designed as the lowest level of geography for the compilation of statistics in line with data protection and generally comprise either complete or part of townlands or neighbourhoods.”
The OSi and CSO, and Pobal that use Census data to make their Deprivation map, aggregate data into Small Areas which comprises 80 and 120 dwellings. This anonymises individuals and addresses, obeying privacy and GDPR requirements.
It seems someone at GeoDirectory took the aggregated Pobal and CSO Census data attached it to GeoDirectory address points.
However, it still is at aggregated data, it’s not identifying individuals or single addresses. It just means all the address points (80 – 120 addresses) will have the same deprivation / affluence values or Census data assigned to them.
It appears someone at the ICCL did not understand this important point, they mistakenly think the GeoDirectory identifies individual persons or addresses. *This is technically impossible.*
To Summarise:
*It is technically impossible for GeoDirectory to sell deprivation / affluence data of individuals or provide the Census returns of single households, as the underlying Pobal and CSO data is aggregated at a Small Areas level (80 to 120 dwellings).*
I must email The Irish Council for Civil Liberties to tell them they are wasting their time.
Sadly the owners are not likely to be jailed under the malicious Fine Gael government despite their business model being a clear intentional breach of the law. If GDPR was enforced they would have been shut down on day one.