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IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses sho...
Janet North West Regional Delivery Servi...
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of May 2018....
Janet Northern Ireland Regional Delivery...
Please find attached the Janet Northern Ireland service area report for the month of May 2...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
Janet Wales service report April 2018
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
Janet Kent service report April 2018
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN...
Janet Kent service report May 2018
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN...
Wireless options on Cisco WLCs
SummaryA few years experience has led to certain wireless options being set on our Cisco W...
Learning from Incidents
It's only lunchtime on the first day of the FIRST Conference 2018, and already two talks have stressed the importance and value of reviewing incidents over both the short and long terms. In the very different contexts of an open science research lab (LBNL) and an online IPR-based business on IPR (Netflix), a common message applies: "don't have the same incident twi...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
GDPR: Alumni processes
Most universities maintain databases of alumni, for purposes including keeping them inform...
What's the data protection difference be...
[UPDATE] a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultati...
Incident response, logfiles and the GDPR
The Article 29 Working Party has recently highlighted the importance of detecting and mitigating information security breaches. One of the key tools in doing this is logfiles: the European Court of Justice in Breyer v Germany recognised the role of web server logs, the Article 29 Working Party guidelines mention logs and network flow data. Common questions are "what logs d...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutorials, and how this fitted into data protection law. Since the main purpose of such monitoring seems to be to identify and assist students who don't attend, and whose presence is therefore not recorded or processed, there seem to be a number of both practical and legal issues to think ab...
Are networks data processors?
As the GDPR approaches, several customer organisations have asked us if the Janet network will be offering a data processor contract. Presumably the idea is that the organisation that creates an IP packet is the data controller for the source IP address and that all the other networks that handle the packet on its journey are (sub-)processors.The law isn't clear on whether ...
ICO guidance on Consent and GDPR
The Information Commissioner’s new guidance on Consent under the General Data Protection Regulation contains some useful guidance for universities and colleges in particular.On the question of which legal bases are available to universities and colleges – in particular whether they are included within the GDPR's disapproval of consent and legitimate interests be...
GDPR: Public Authorities and Legitimate ...
I was interested to spot that the Article 29 Working Party visited the question of "public authorities" back in 2014, on page 23 of their Opinion on Legitimate Interests. There they note that there are two possible interpretations of the (then draft) General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) rule that public authorities may not use legitimate interests in the pe...
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Please find attached the Janet Northern Ireland service area report for the month of May 2018.
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of May 2018.
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of May 2018.
The Wireless Technical Advisory Service (WTAS) ran for a number of years and as technologies have improved, the demand for this advisory service has...
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA
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