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Jisc's Chief Regulatory Adviser, Andrew Cormack, talks about GDPR and how you can streamline processes.
Read about what the law requires and what Jisc's members should do.
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Jisc's free GDPR event on 6 December 2017 is designed to offer our members practical advice around the impact of these changes and how to plan and implement changes across your organisation. Our experts will be on hand to answer your questions throughout the day.
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Universities and colleges need to have various processes and practises in place prior to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming UK law in May 2018. Andrew Cormack provides useful advice at these links:
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The latest announcement from the Article 29 Working Party on the US-EU Privacy Shield also suggests that there shouldn't be any short-term surprises for those using the other justifications for exporting personal data to the USA.
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In October 2014, the DfE provided advice aimed at School leaders, school staff and governing bodies in all maintained schools, academies and free schools and also local authorities. This is a link to the document
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The Article 29 Working Party of European data protection supervisors had hoped to make a full statement on the EU/US Safe Harbor agreement at the end of January. However this has now been postponed, probably until mid-April. The European Court of Justice declared last October that the original Safe Harbor did not guarantee adequate protection when personal data were transferred from Europe to the USA.
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GÉANT has secured a new special discount offer from ownCloud, an enterprise file sync and share solution. They're offering
even more value than before to new customers until the end of 2015.
Because of the holiday season, new applications must be submitted before 23 December.
More information can be found at:
http://www.geant.org/News_and_Events/Pages/ownCloud-licensees.aspx
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The Information Commissioner's Office has published a new article on how they are responding to the European Court's Safe Harbor judgment. The overall message is that data controllers should take stock and not panic. While noting that the judgment does remove some of the former legal certainty, the ICO is "certainly not rushing to use our enforcement powers".
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Martin Hamilton and Dan Perry at Jisc have written a report on the future of cloud computing. Click here to find out more about the origins of cloud services, their implications for institutions, what Jisc has done to help institutions adopt cloud services and some ideas on what Jisc can do in the future. Included in that report are success stories from the organisations that use cloud services - read about the collaboration, research and cost savings that have been realised.
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