Marketing & Communications
Subscribe to this community
List of UK hospitals providing free pati...
Hospitals that have free patient & visitor WiFi include those below, not necessarily the same as those providing eduroam. Not quite as convenient and managed as eduroam but nevertheless a valuable facility for visiting students or academics:Adamson Hospital, CuparAintree University HospitalAlder Hey Children's Hospital, LiverpoolAshburton & Buckfastleigh Hospital, D...
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 appropriate]One of the key steps in preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation is to know why you are processing each set of personal data, and...
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 students on clinical placement in the NHS and the academic staff supporting them, plus clinical researchers working with the NHS.See here for a ...
List of UK hospitals providing eduroam
eduroam has often been extended in to the NHS to support students on clinical placement and clinicians with joint NHS and University roles in clinical research and/or education. The case studies are here. Current best attempt at a list...
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...
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a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultation.The Information Commissioner's draft guidance on consent makes a surprisingly broad distinction between public and private sector organisations, even when they process the same data for the same purposes.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 ...
Nov 2020: Independent Group Advising (NH...
Update and Perspectives from the Chair and a Specialist Member....
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...
NHS-HE Information Governance Working Gr...
This is the home page for the NHS-HE Information Governance which was formed in summer 2013. It is currently chaired by Trevor Peacock, UCL, holding the fort in the interim for Wendy Craig, University of Newcastle. If you would like to join then please email malcolm.teague@jisc.ac.uk or request at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/NHS-HE-IG-WGTerms of ReferenceMembershipMeeting...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutori...
AI and Ethics: GDPR and beyond
The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI con...
GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to...
I was recently asked how the GDPR's Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives. However that right, created by Article 17 of the GDPR, only arises when a data controller no longer has a legal basis for processing personal data. Provided an organisation is implementing an appropriate backup and archiving strategy, that shouldn't happen.The key point is that backu...
Are networks data processors?
As the GDPR approaches, several customer organisations have asked us if the Janet network ...
Travelling with encrypted devices
Most portable devices – laptops, smartphones and memory sticks – should be enc...
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 Wednesday 31st January 2018. Now traffic from the old N3, now called the Transition Network, to Janet IP addresses is routed through the general Transi...
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 unive...
Latest activity
Janet Peering Policy
Janet operates an open peering policy subject to our standard peering agreement and all ISPs are invited to peer....
