The recent increased awareness of federated social networks has produced some discussion about their status under new “platform regulation” laws, such as the UK Online Safety Bill. Most of this has focussed on whether federated instances might be covered by legislation and, if so, what their operators’ responsibilities are. But this post uses them as […]
European Data Protection Regulators have been expressing their concerns for nearly twenty years about public records of domain name ownership (commonly referred to as WHOIS data). A recent case (C37-20) on public records of company ownership (required under money-laundering legislation) suggests that the European Court of Justice would have similar doubts. But its comments on […]
Discussions of student wellbeing tend to focus on providing individual support for those who are struggling to cope. That’s great, but likely to demand a lot of skilled staff time. A few years ago Bangor University investigated whether the university might be contributing to stress through excessive or spiky workloads. Addressing causes of stress would, […]