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Last week I was invited to be a member of a panel at the UN Internet Governance Forum on h...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Oct.19 to add EDPB on Necessary for Contract and ICO on Consent][Updated Sep.18 t...
Remote Proctoring and Invigilation
[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 examination context, where candidates gather in large halls to write on paper, to candidates being assessed using computers, in small groups or individual work spaces. In this change, the role of the invigilator (also known as &qu...
IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses sho...
Free Text and Data Protection
Collections of free text – whether in database fields, documents or email archives – present a challenge both for operations and under data protection law. They may contain personal data but it's hard to find: whether y...
COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition and GDPR
[Notes:This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering support...
GDPR: Alumni processes
Most universities maintain databases of alumni, for purposes including keeping them inform...
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...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutori...
Consultation: Assessing the impact of (r...
Our university and college buildings already contain a surprising number of sensors that could collect information about those who occupy them. At a recent event I spotted at least half a dozen different systems in a normal lecture room, including motion detectors, swipe card readers, wireless access points, the camera and microphone being used to stream the event, and Bluetoot...
AI and Ethics: GDPR and beyond
The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI con...
EDPS preliminary opinion on Data Protect...
The European Data Protection Supervisor has just published an interesting paper on the research provisions in the GDPR. The whole thing is worth reading, but some things particularly caught my eye:Stresses (again) that research-consent...
GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to...
I was recently asked how the GDPR's Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives...
Federated Authentication and the GDPR Pr...
The General Data Protection Regulation's Article 4(1) establishes six principles for a...
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[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...
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[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...
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