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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...
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...
Data Protection 3.0: law and ethics
To my ex-programmer ears, phrases like "web 2.0" and "industry 4.0" always sound a bit odd. Sectors don’t have release dates, unlike Windows 10, iOS 12 or Android Oreo. Oddly, one field that does have major ve...
Janet North West Regional Delivery Servi...
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of January 2019...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website][Updated...
Update - Underscore characters in dnsNam...
With regards to our update in September regarding the underscores in domain names for SSL ...
Improving reliability of Microsoft NPS a...
I've spent a fair bit of time over the past month trying to improve the reliability of our RADIUS service for eduroam. Previously it was entirely based on Microsoft NPS which has the tendency to silently discard authentication packets which it should really be rejecting. This creates a problem because if the authentication request originated from outside of your ...
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...
eduroam(UK) Microsoft NPS Configuration ...
This guide describes the setup of the Microsoft Network Policy Server for use with eduroam in the UK. Whilst it is the key component, the Organisational RADIUS Server (ORPS) is just one element of your eduroam deployment and this guide...
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...
My Algorithmic "Friend"
In a workshop at last week's AMOSSHE conference, we discussed how wellbeing analytics might be able to assist existing Student Support services.Student support is simplest when an individual themselves asks for help: a support serv...
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...
New European Commission recommendation o...
Earlier this month the European Commission issued an updated recommendation on which telecoms markets should be subject to ex ante regulation in Europe.The term ex ante refers to strong “before the event” market intervention by a regulatory body, and includes measures such as pricing regulation and placing obligations on a provider or providers ...
Janet North West Regional Delivery Servi...
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of December 2018...
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 d...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
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Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of January 2019
To my ex-programmer ears, phrases like "web 2.0" and "industry 4.0" always sound a bit odd. Sectors don’t have release dates, unlike Windows 10, iOS 12 or Android...
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of January 2019
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of December 2018
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