The recent European Court case of Breyer v Germany provides welcome support for those who wish to protect the security of on-line services. The case concerned two questions – whether a website’s logfiles (typically containing time, client IP address, URL requested and result) constituted personal data and, if so, whether data protection law allowed the […]
Month: October 2016
Abstract: Reconciling big data techniques with a legal approach relying on prior consent has proved difficult. By definition, when organisations collection personal information for data-led investigations they do not know what the results and impact of their processing will be. This paper suggests how other parts of the current European data protection framework can provide […]
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Prevent – updated HEFCE guidance
On the recent trial run of our new course on Filtering and Monitoring we invited students to discuss the Home Office requirement to “consider the use of filters as part of their overall strategy to prevent people being drawn into terrorism“. HEFCE’s recent update of their monitoring framework for Higher Education providers in England asks […]