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NHS-HE WG - Planning for 31st March 2021...
From NHS-HE IG Working Group meeting of 21st October 2020...
NHS-HE IG WG - Guidance for new starters...
From the NHS-HE Information Governance Working Group on 21st Oct 2020...
NHS-HE IG Working Group - Meeting on 21s...
A virtual meeting Agenda Introduction – Trevor Peacock, UCL Planning for the March 31st COPI end date – Alex Bailey, MRC Regulatory Support Centre Information asset registers - David Stone, Kaleidoscope Consultants ...
List of UK hospitals providing free pati...
Hospitals that have free patient & visitor WiFi include those below, not necessarily t...
NHS and eduroam/shared use of wireless/g...
eduroam has been widely extended in to the NHS and is a successful and popular support for...
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...
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,...
Choose the right metaphor
I've been reading a fascinating paper by Julia Slupska – "War, Health and E...
Benefits of attending our training cours...
• Improve your skills, share good practice and learn from others• Tailored courses specifically designed for organisations connected to the Janet network• Meet colleagues working in similar environments at other organisations• Courses held all year round, at UK wide locations and online for maximum flexibility• 1 year online support following the c...
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...
Wellbeing Analytics Code of Practice: Co...
[UPDATE: thanks for your feedback. Final text has now gone into the Jisc production proces...
What's the data protection difference be...
[UPDATE] a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultati...
NHS-HE Information Governance Working Gr...
This is the home page for the NHS-HE Information Governance which was formed in summe...
Federated Authentication and the GDPR Pr...
The General Data Protection Regulation's Article 4(1) establishes six principles for any processing of personal data. It's interesting to compare how federated authentication – where a student authenticates to their university/college, which then provides relevant assurances to the website they want to access – performs against those principles when compared...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
Should we just log everything?
In a world where data storage is almost unlimited and algorithms promise to interrogate da...
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&...
N3 Janet Gateway - taken down on 31st Ja...
Dear All,This is just to confirm that the N3 Janet Gateway was taken down at 5pm on Wednes...
Data, Flows and Benefits
[A second post arising out of excellent discussions at the DALTAí project seminar in Dublin this week]We're all familiar, perhaps too familiar, with how data flows typically work online. We give commercial companies access to data about ourselves; they extract some benefit from it, for example by selling profiled advertising space; they share some of that benefit back to u...
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A virtual meeting
Agenda
Introduction – Trevor Peacock, UCL
Planning for the March 31st COPI end date – Alex Bailey, MRC Regulatory Support...
From the NHS-HE Information Governance Working Group on 21st Oct 2020
A virtual meeting
Agenda
Introduction – Trevor Peacock, UCL
Planning for the March 31st COPI end date – Alex Bailey, MRC Regulatory Support...
Jisc Services Limited Peering Policy
JSL operates an open peering policy and all...
Janet Peering Policy
Janet operates an open peering policy subject to our standard peering agreement and all ISPs are invited to peer. We are...
