Marguerite Duval-Owusu
privacy lawyer
Exact; rights are enforceable when used
Data Subject
Her fertility data is on a forum. Aoife learns her data rights and takes on a company that would rather she went away, discovering along the way how much of her life sits in other people’s databases.
Planned · not started yet
Law & your rights Ethics & integrity Living with uncertainty City life Hospital or clinic Tense Bracing
The premise
Her fertility data is on a forum. Aoife learns her data rights and takes on a company that would rather she went away, discovering along the way how much of her life sits in other people’s databases.
The protagonist
Aoife Brannigan — Dublin nurse whose health-app data appears in a leak
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Felix Ondaatje
data-protection officer
Fair; explains how organisations respond
Rania Soliman
security researcher
Curious; shows how breaches happen
How the story moves
From breach to the regulator’s decision; other victims join her complaint and the stakes grow.
What readers take away
- Personal and special-category data
- Subject access requests
- Rights to erasure and rectification
- Breach-notification duties
- Complaints to the regulator
- Compensation claims
- Reducing your data footprint
- Reading privacy policies
- Write a data-protection complaint
- Calculate statutory response deadlines
- Use privacy settings on health apps
- Understand class actions in data cases
The books
- 1The leak Planned
- 2The request Planned
- 3The complaint Planned
- 4The ruling Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.