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Learning Analytics: helping tutors help ...
Talking to new audiences, who may not share your preconceptions, is a great way to learn new things. So I was delighted to be invited to Dublin to talk about learning analytics as part of their DALTAí project (an English backronym cre...
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...
Janet Kent service report August 2019
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN...
Janet Kent service report May 2019
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN...
EDPS preliminary opinion on Data Protect...
The European Data Protection Supervisor has just published an interesting paper on the res...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Oct.19 to add EDPB on Necessary for Contract and ICO on Consent][Updated Sep.18 t...
Building blocks for trustworthy AI in ed...
[UPDATE: my slides are now available]This week I've been presenting at an event on Artificial Intelligence in Education, organised by the Finnish Government in their current role as EU Presidency. Specifically I was asked to look at where we might find building blocks for the ethical use of AI in education.Looking at the EU High Level Experts Group list of Principles and Re...
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...
Laws to help security and incident respo...
Last week I was invited to be a member of a panel at the UN Internet Governance Forum on how law can help security and incident response and, in particular, information sharing. It seems there are still concerns in some places that pri...
Showing Accountability for Personal Data
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation to an audience of university accommodation managers (thanks to Kinetic for the invitation), where I suggested that we should view Data Protection as an opportunity, rather than a challenge.That may...
Janet Wales service report October 2019
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to Janet via the PSBA...
Travelling with encrypted devices
Most portable devices – laptops, smartphones and memory sticks – should be enc...
Janet Wales service report October 2019
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to Janet via the PSBA...
Brexit and GDPR
Under current plans the UK will become - for data protection purposes - a "third country" when it leaves the EU. Although the UK Government has stated that the rules for transferring personal data from the UK to the EU will remain the same, any transfers from the EU to the UK will need to satisfy the "export" clauses in Articles 44 to 49 of the General Data ...
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...
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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[A second post arising out of excellent discussions at the DALTAí project...
Talking to new audiences, who may not share your preconceptions, is a great way to learn new things. So I was delighted to be invited to Dublin to talk about learning...
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network
The European Data Protection Supervisor has just published an interesting...
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...
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