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Right to Object: an Opportunity to Improve?

I was invited to contribute to a seminar on the Right to Object (RtO). Normally this GDPR provision is seen as a way to prevent harm to a particular individual because of their special circumstances. But I wondered whether data controllers could also use the RtO process as an opportunity to review whether their processing […]

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Online Safety Bill – Outsourced Platforms

When the Government first announced plans to regulate online discussion platforms I wondered whether small organisations would be able to outsource the compliance burden to a provider better equipped to deliver rapid and effective response. Clause 180(2) of the Online Safety Bill suggests the answer is yes: The provider of a user-to-user service is to […]

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Online Safety Bill – Educational Institutions

[21/6: Added more examples of public engagement] [22/3: Updated analysis of why read-only access fits within the para 8 exemption] The Government has now published its Online Safety Bill: the text that will be debated, and no doubt amended, in Parliament. Compared to last summer’s draft, this is somewhat clearer on whether platforms operated by […]

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What’s the Role of Technology in Assessment?

[Script for a presentation at a recent Westminster Education Forum event…] Back in February 2020 we knew what assessment looked like. Jisc had just published “The Future of Assessment”, setting five targets – Authentic, Accessible, Appropriately Automated, Continuous, and Secure – to aim for by 2025. Then COVID made us all look at assessment through […]