“Big Data” has – often rightly – had a bad press. Is there a better way to think about it? Starting from potential benefits and discussing how they might be achieved should help us choose the right outcomes to aim for when using data, make it more likely that those aims will be delivered, and […]
During the pandemic, a lot of ideas have come up – not just contact tracing! – where useful information might be derived from location data. It struck me that a selection of those might be an interesting illustration of how intrusiveness isn’t just about the data we use, but what we use it for. Here’s […]
Jisc performs a number of different activities to keep Janet and customer sites secure. Here’s a very short video on how we used a Data Protection Impact Assessment and a Legitimate Interests Assessment to check that those activities do not themselves create disproportionate risks. You can read the reports: Security Operations Centre (SOC): Data Protection Impact […]
Since it has provided the foundation for most of the work I’ve been doing on data for the past couple of years, I’ve recorded a video explaining our standard model for “analytics”, in both practical and legal terms If you’d like to know more, a couple of papers set out the theory Downstream Consent: a […]
On and off, I’ve been researching the legal aspects of incident detection and response for fifteen years, and published more than 25000 words in law journals. So, can that be summarised in less than five minutes? You judge… And if you’d like to read more, here are the original papers: Processing Data to Protect Data: […]
Colleagues set me the challenge of saying something about my work in one minute. So here (on YouTube) is a “peacast” – my wife says it’s too small to be a “podcast” – on Brexit and GDPR: Comments very welcome on the format and, if you like it, suggestions for any other topics I could […]