Profile Helen Dixon: The data detective

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Age: Not disclosed

Appearance: safe and steady, rarely seen without a conventional black suit

Newsworthiness: the Data Protection Commissioner is probing both INM and Facebook

In a week when Mark Zuckerberg faced a grilling by US lawmakers over Facebook’s use of personal information, it is hard to believe that one of his company’s first brushes with regulatory scrutiny took place in a small office above a Centra shop in Portarlington.

The dreary-looking, ...