With Parliament now on its summer break, the legal position under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 is unlikely to change till September. That makes this a good time for HE and FE providers in England, Wales and Scotland (the duty doesn’t cover Northern Ireland – see s51(1)) to review the guidance that has been […]
Month: July 2015
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Network Neutrality and Network Security
There’s a tension between network neutrality – essentially the principle that a network should be a dumb pipe that treats every packet alike – and network security, which may require some packets to be dropped to protect either the network or its users. Some current attacks simply can’t be dealt with by devices at the […]
Since becoming involved in Jisc’s work on learning analytics, I’ve been trying to work out the best place to fit the use of students’ digital data to improve education into data protection law. I’ve now written up those thoughts as a paper, and submitted it to the Journal of Learning Analytics. As the abstract says: […]