The Business post reported yesterday that Paddy Power bookmakers are taking extraordinarily heavy-handed measures to prevent the unionisation of its staff, while the Indo carried a case study on a CE scheme worker.

The Irish Times reports this morning that there's still a good many of us who don't use our Eircodes (I find myself in the 14% minority who use it all the time), while email has taken over from the phone as the preferred method of contacting public services.

And while that's data you can control, facial recognition software grabs personal data without your consent, so the EU Commission's vice president for digital has said the use of the technology is illegal under GDPR.

Estate agent Mark Fitzgerald argues the housing crisis can't be tackled unless "the private and public sectors work hand-in-glove in the spirit of appropriate collaboration", with everyone "parking ideaology" and getting on with the job of building homes.

Elsewhere, I can't pass up a couple of opportunities to plug some cultural events taking place this week and next. Everybody Knows Dead People is an exhibition of photographs by Darragh Shanahan (the brother) opening this week at The Space Between in Dublin, while The Absolute State, a verbatim play about Irish youth's relationship with alcohol by Luke Shanahan (the youngfella)  will be staged as part of the Scene and Heard festival of new work getting underway this week at Smock Alley theatre.

In the interest of full disclosure, the recently elected Waterford TD Matt Shanahan is no relation.

Your Zen this morning comes from Saturday night's Tommy Tiernan show. Two brilliantly talented musicians at the top of their game. Iarla Ó Lionáird and Steve Cooney perform 'Casadh an tSúgáin'.

Have a good week.