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Adaptability, Openness and Curiosity
If Education 4.0 is about preparing students for the workplace of the future, that's g...
Laws to help security and incident respo...
Last week I was invited to be a member of a panel at the UN Internet Governance Forum on h...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Oct.19 to add EDPB on Necessary for Contract and ICO on Consent][Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website][Updated Oct.17 to include an example where multiple justifications are appropri...
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JiscCommunity has been this blog's home for eight years, but I'm now moving over to JiscInform. That has many nice features, notably that it works really well on mobile devices, lets me provide better indexing for posts, and gi...
Remote Proctoring and Invigilation
[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]Recent y...
IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses should be treated as personal data because they can be used to single out individuals for different treatment, even if not to actually identify them. In fact – as most organisations and network providers implement proxies, Network Address Translation (NAT) and other technologies to sque...
Travelling with encrypted devices
Most portable devices – laptops, smartphones and memory sticks – should be enc...
Wireless options on Cisco WLCs
SummaryA few years experience has led to certain wireless options being set on our Cisco W...
Consultation: Assessing the impact of (r...
Our university and college buildings already contain a surprising number of sensors that c...
GDPR: Alumni processes
Most universities maintain databases of alumni, for purposes including keeping them informed about the organisation, offering services and seeking donations. These activities have a lot in common with other charities, so the Informatio...
AI and Ethics: GDPR and beyond
The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI con...
COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition and GDPR
[Notes:This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition that the data protection risks should be very low;This only covers the use of data for defending systems, networks, data and users; use for offense, including attribution and evidence, is covered by separate legislation, which varies much more betwee...
How Should Education use AI?
In looking at the many ethical concerns that have been expressed about the use of Artificial Intelligence in education, it struck me that most fall at the two ends of a scale. On the one hand questions of human autonomy lead to concerns about cookie-cutter approaches, where AI treats every student according to a rigid formula; on the other hand questions about the social functi...
Janet West Midlands Service Report March...
Janet West Midlands Service Report March 2020...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
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JiscCommunity has been this blog's home for eight years, but I'm now moving over to JiscInform. That has many nice features, notably that it works really well on...
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[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]
Recent years, and weeks, have seen a move away from the traditional...
I've been reading a fascinating paper by Julia Slupska – "War, Health and...
[Notes:
- This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the...
[Notes:
- This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the...
The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network
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