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I was invited to speak at the Russell Group IT Directors' meeting yesterday, on the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 and its implications for universities. My slides are attached to this post.
Most of the Act is concerned with human, rather than technology, issues but the Act does require universities and colleges to have "due regard for the need to prevent people being drawn into terrorism". However, as I concluded:
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While we're still awaiting the announcement of the date when universities and colleges will have a legal duty to "have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism", there's probably enough information available in the published guidance for organisations to start reviewing whether their current practice is likely to be sufficient to satisfy that duty.
Three resources are already available:
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Last week I gave a seminar at Southampton University on how data protection law could provide support and guidance for universities' use of learning analytics. The next day Jisc launched a Code of Practice on Learning Analytics, which puts many of the same ideas into practical form.
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A recent conference on student data included perspectives on learning analytics from the OECD and the European Commission.
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I've been at several conferences recently on how Data Protection law is developing, and they've left me less than optimistic. By the end of 2015 Europe will have been working for four years on a Regulation "on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data", but I’m now doubting whether the result will actually achieve either of those.
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ENISA’s new report proposing a "Security Framework for Governmental Clouds" may be more widely useful than its title and explicit scope suggest.
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Yesterday's excellent University of Cambridge conference on Internet Regulation After Google Spain suggested that data protection law will continue to affect a growing range of our activities, but that interpreting its requirements in novel circumstances will continue to be challenging.
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In discussions of the "Right to be Forgotten" it is often observed that Google manages each month to deal with tens of millions of delisting requests for breach of copyright, as opposed to tens of thousands for inaccurate personal data. Often the implication seems to be that those numbers should be more similar.
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A couple of discussions at Networkshop this week have raised the question of cyber-insurance, and whether this might be useful to universities and colleges. To think about that I split the question into three:
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I'll be presenting a workshop and discussion session on 'From Mobile Device Policy to BYOD' at Jisc's Digifest on Monday 9th March. Come along and hear why Bring Your Own Device may not be as scary as you think
My slides are now published on slideshare
ICC, Birmingham
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 09:00 to Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 17:00
