Poor IQ Can Get You Sued - Common Law Issues in Information Quality

Daragh O Brien, IAIDQ Charter Member and Director
Vice-President, Publicity and Recruitment
IAIDQ

Thursday 11:00am - 12:00pm

Level: Advanced

There has been much focus on Sarbox and similar laws over the past few years. However, the duty to provide accurate and reliable information is well established in Law already through Common Law duties of care. These have no minimum materiality thresholds, nor do are changes to the rules of the game clearly announced by the SEC in advance. This presentation gives a crash course in some of the core legal principles and then proceeds to map them to best practices in Information Quality to show how the objectives of the law and the objectives of IQ are more aligned than one might think. The presentation also includes some examples of Irish cases to provoke some discussion and thinking on the topics as they might apply in other jurisdictions. Ultimately law is an expression of Society's expectation of conduct. Poor IQ can get you sued.

Daragh O Brien works in an internal consulting and project management role with eircom, the leading telecommunications company in Ireland, on Single View of Customer and Enterprise Information Management projects, with an increasing focus on the role of Information Quality and Process management as part of Compliance strategies. He has 8 years hands-on experience with the issues of SVC, CRM and Information Quality within small and large organizations. A regular and highly rated speaker at International conferences on Information Management and CRM, Daragh has also authored a number of articles on aspects of the Strategic management of Information and Information Quality in organizations. Daragh is a Charter Member of the International Association for Information and Data Quality and is a Member of the Irish Computer Society. He is also the Convenor of the IQ Ireland Network, the leading Irish SIG for Information Quality Best Practice which is run in association with the Irish Computer Society and the IAIDQ. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business and Legal Studies from the National University of Ireland (Dublin).