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Clouds and the draft Data Protection Regulation

At the moment both cloud computing providers and their business customers in Europe have to deal with at least twenty-eight different interpretations of Data Protection law. And there are nearly as many different national rules and formalities when using non-European cloud providers (the UK approach is described in the Information Commissioner’s Guide to Cloud Computing). […]

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Public traffic backhaul

It has long been a source of frustration that if a Janet connected site wanted to provide connectivity to members of the public this required a separate physical network link to connect those users to a partner Internet Access Provider. Members of the public can’t be given access to the Janet IP service as this […]

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Life-long identifiers in Research and Education

There are several situations when it would be useful to have a life-long identifier that doesn’t change when we move house, employer or even country. Most of us already have life-long identifiers to link together all our interactions with the health service and the tax office; in research and education linking together our achievements would […]