Recently I’ve been presenting our suggested legal framework for learning analytics to audiences involved in teaching, rather than legal people. For that I’ve been trying out a different visualisation, which considers the teaching process as involving three layers: Teaching itself (red): during which we process the personal data that’s needed to help students learn. The […]
Alongside the 1995 Data Protection Directive (DPD) sat the 2002 ePrivacy Directive (ePD), explaining how the DPD should be applied in the specific context of electronic communications. In fact, particularly after it was amended in 2009, the ePD did a bit more than that, as it turned out to be a convenient place to insert […]
Over recent months the GDPR has given extra weight to concerns – originally expressed by regulators fifteen years ago – about public access to information about individual registrants of DNS domains. This article considers the use of this WHOIS data by those handling information security incidents, and why this represents a benefit, rather than a […]