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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...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website][Updated...
Janet Cumbria Regional Delivery Service ...
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of August 2018....
Janet Northern Ireland Regional Delivery...
Please find attached the Janet Northern Ireland area service report for the month of Septe...
Janet Kent service report September 2018
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN....
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
Janet Kent service report August 2018
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN....
Janet Wales service report August 2018
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA...
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Wireless options on Cisco WLCs
SummaryA few years experience has led to certain wireless options being set on our Cisco Wireless Controllers due to different reasons. Here is a summary of what we have set at the University of Leicester, and why we set them. They are...
GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to...
I was recently asked how the GDPR's Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives...
GDPR: Alumni processes
Most universities maintain databases of alumni, for purposes including keeping them inform...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
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...
ePrivacy Regulation: better news for onl...
Some good news from the draft ePrivacy Regulation. More than a year after I pointed out that the Regulation could inadvertently prohibit websites and other Internet-connected services from using logfiles to secure their services, the Council of Ministers' latest (20th September 2018) draft explicitly recognises the problem. Recital 8 now includes the positive statement that...
Incident response, logfiles and the GDPR
The Article 29 Working Party has recently highlighted the importance of detecting and miti...
Learning Analytics: Information Filterin...
An interesting observation made by a Dutch colleague earlier this week. The arrows in my standard model of learning analytics (here rearranged and recoloured to match the "swimlane" visualisation of the learning process) all ...
Learning Analytics: a new visualisation
Recently I've been presenting our suggested legal framework for learning analytics to audiences involved in teaching, rather than legal people. For that I've been trying out a different visualisation, which considers the teaching process as involving three layers:Teaching itself (red): during which we process the personal data that's needed to help students learn. T...
What's the data protection difference be...
[UPDATE] a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultation.The Information Commissioner's draft guidance on consent makes a surprisingly broad distinction between public and private sector organisations, even when they process the same data for the same purposes. This risks removing important protections when personal data are processed by ...
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Please find attached the Janet Northern Ireland area service report for the month of September 2018.
Please find attached the Janet Northern Ireland area service report for the month of September 2018.
Janet North West Group
Welcome to Janet North West; the Janet community in North West England. Here you can find out about:
...Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of September 2018
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of August 2018.
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 Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA.
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