At the request of the Research Councils UK e-Infrastructure group, Janet established a working group from 2013-2016 to support those providing and using e-infrastructure services in achieving an approach that both protects services from threats and is usable by practitioners. More detail about the group can be found in the Terms of Reference. The Working […]
Month: December 2016
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Accounting and e-Infrastructures
While some e-infrastructures included accounting in their design and operations from the start, others are now being asked or required to add accounting support to their existing systems. Typically accounting forms part of a relationship between the infrastructure and some other organisation – perhaps a funder, host or customer – rather than the infrastructure’s relationship […]
[Update: Jisc has responded to the Working Party’s invitation to comment on these guidelines] The General Data Protection Regulation contains one new right for individuals – data portability (Article 20). Some commentators have suggested that this is just a digital form of the existing subject access right, but the Article 29 Working Party’s new guidance […]
After (too) many years, I’ve turned the ideas from my original TF-CSIRT documents into a formal academic paper, which has just been published in the open access law journal, SCRIPTed: Andrew Cormack, “Incident Response: Protecting Individual Rights Under the General Data Protection Regulation”, (2016) 13:3 SCRIPTed 258 https://script-ed.org/?p=3180 The new General Data Protection Regulation provides […]
The European Commission recently published wide proposals to reform copyright law. One particular concern is that the proposals appear to reduce the existing legal protections for sites that host third party content. Under the current e-Commerce Directive, such sites are generally protected from liability until they are informed of allegedly infringing content (Article 14), and […]
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Learning Analytics – an updated model
At Jisc’s Learning Analytics Network meeting last month I presented an updated version of my suggested legal model for Learning Analytics. The new version adds the data collection stage(s) and seems to me – both as a sometime system developer and privacy-sensitive student – to provide the kinds of guidance, choices and protections that I’d […]