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GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Oct.19 to add EDPB on Necessary for Contract and ICO on Consent][Updated Sep.18 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a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultation.The Information Commissioner's draft guidance on consent makes a surprisingly broad distinction between public and private sector organisations, even when they process the same data for the same purposes.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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Free Text and Data Protection
Collections of free text – whether in database fields, documents or email archives &...
Remote Proctoring and Invigilation
[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]Recent y...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutori...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
Federated Authentication and the GDPR Pr...
The General Data Protection Regulation's Article 4(1) establishes six principles for a...
Are networks data processors?
As the GDPR approaches, several customer organisations have asked us if the Janet network ...
Wellbeing Analytics Code of Practice: Co...
[UPDATE: thanks for your feedback. Final text has now gone into the Jisc production process :)]Jisc has been providing expert, trusted advice on digital technology in the education sector for more than 30 years. We know that technology and data have the ability to transform the student experience. But, as a membership organisation owned by research and educational institutions,...
Wellbeing analytics: legal explorations
While colleagues are looking at whether data can be used to pick up early signs of mental ...
Learning Analytics Dashboards
Learning analytics dashboards, like the class mark books that long preceded them, show tutors a lot of information about their students. That could be pretty intrusive, so should universities and colleges be asking students to consent before tutors look at their data? I don't think so, both because the students most likely to benefit are probably the least likely to provide...
DPIAs: First Attempts
Article 35 of the General Data Protection Regulation introduces a requirement to conduct a...
Intelligent Campus: Risks, Benefits and ...
[Re-purposing an unused introduction to my full paper - "See no... Hear no... Track n...
Federated Access Management and the GDPR
[this article is based on the draft text published by the European Council on 28th January 2016. Recital and article numbers, at least, will change before the final text]When individuals register to access a website or other on-line se...
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,...
GDPR: Official CSIRTs?
A couple of organisations have asked me recently whether the General Data Protection Regul...
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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...
[UPDATE: thanks for your feedback. Final text has now gone into the Jisc production process :)]
Jisc has been providing expert, trusted advice on digital...
[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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