[roughly what I said in a presentation yesterday to the Northern Universities’ Consortium] I’ve been a full or part-time student for more than thirty years. It’s interesting to reflect on how my student record has changed over that time. In 1981 university administrators no doubt put my typed application in a paper file. Each year […]
Month: November 2015
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Future of Data Protection Forum
Some very interesting and positive messages came out of this week’s Future of Data Protection Forum. Interestingly the forum didn’t just focus on the draft European Regulation: partly because the final state of that is still unclear, but also because there was general agreement that reputable organisations shouldn’t aim merely to comply with data protection […]
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House of Lords: Online Platforms
The European Commission have recently announced a consultation into online platforms. Last month the House of Lords EU Internal Market Sub-committee invited submissions of evidence to inform the UK’s response. Although the main focus of both consultations is competition issues, they do revisit the question of intermediary liability for third-party postings. At the moment EU […]
The Government has today published its draft Investigatory Powers Bill. There are 299 pages in the legislation alone, so for now I’ve been looking at the parts most likely to affect Janet and its customers. So far I’ve looked at a bit less than half of the Bill: further implications, if any, will be the […]