Data Protection Regulation

Learning Analytics

Learning analytics dashboards, like the class mark books that long preceded them, show tutors a lot of information about their students. That could be pretty intrusive, so should universities and colleges be asking students to consent before tutors look at their data?

25 May 2018 at 9:19am

DPIA - Security Operations Centre

incident response

Delighted to report that our first Data Protection Impact Assessment, for the Janet Security Operations Centre, is now publiushed at http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6847/1/Jisc_security_operations_centre_-_data_protection_impact_assessment.pdf Thanks to the SOC and GDPR teams who made this happen!

2 May 2018 at 11:48am

DPIAs: First Attempts

Data Protection Impact Assessment

Article 35 of the General Data Protection Regulation introduces a requirement to conduct a formal Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) for any processing that may involve a high risk to individuals. The Article 29 Working Party’s DPIA guidance contains a helpful list of nine factors that may give rise to a high risk. Any activity involving two or more factors is likely to require a DPIA.

1 May 2018 at 9:15am

Incident response, logfiles and the GDPR

incident response

The Article 29 Working Party has recently highlighted the importance of detecting and mitigating information security breaches.

26 April 2018 at 9:46am

Research Provisions in the GDPR

Like the current Data Protection Act 1998, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply to any research involving data about identifiable living individuals. Also like the Act, the Regulation provides for adaptation in a couple of areas where this is needed to make such research possible.

24 April 2018 at 2:00pm

Are networks data processors?

As the GDPR approaches, several customer organisations have asked us if the Janet network will be offering a data processor contract. Presumably the idea is that the organisation that creates an IP packet is the data controller for the source IP address and that all the other networks that handle the packet on its journey are (sub-)processors.

4 April 2018 at 10:08am

IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR

IP address

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.

23 March 2018 at 1:24pm

Federated Authentication and the GDPR Principles

Access Management

The General Data Protection Regulation's Article 4(1) establishes six principles for any processing of personal data. It's interesting to compare how federated authentication – where a student authenticates to their university/college, which then provides relevant assurances to the website they want to access – performs against those principles when compared with traditional direct logins to websites.

22 March 2018 at 11:24am

Why should non-EU organisations care about GDPR?