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My Algorithmic “Friend”

In a workshop at last week’s AMOSSHE conference, we discussed how wellbeing analytics might be able to assist existing Student Support services. Slides: jisc andrew cormack 4×3 v2 Student support is simplest when an individual themselves asks for help: a support service can immediately begin to discuss – using toolkits such as that developed by UHI […]

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Data and Ethics: update

Earlier this week I did a presentation to a group from Dutch Universities on the ethics work that Jisc has done alongside its studies, pilots and services on the use of data. This covered the development of our Learning Analytics Code of Practice, as well as our plans to apply that Code to wellbeing applications, […]

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Explorations in GDPR

With the GDPR having now been in force for more than six months, my talk at this week’s EUNIS workshop looked at some of the less familiar corners of the GDPR map. In particular, since EUNIS provided an international audience, I was looking for opportunities to find common, or at least compatible, approaches across the […]

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Information Sharing and GDPR

I’ve been asked a number of times whether GDPR affects the sharing of information between incident response teams. This slideset from a recent RUGIT Security meeting discusses how GDPR encourages sharing to improve security, and provides a rule of thumb for deciding when the benefit of sharing justifies the data protection risk. Information Sharing and […]

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Assessing the DP Impact of Jisc Security Services

At last week’s Jisc Security Conference I presented a talk on how we’ve assessed a couple of Jisc services (our Security Operations Centre and Penetration Testing Service) from a data protection perspective. The results have reassured us that these services create benefits rather than risks for Jisc, its customers and members, and users of the […]

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Learning Analytics and GDPR

Since there was a lot of interest in my keynote presentation at the EUNIS 2018 conference last week, this post collects together the slides and the blog posts that provide further analysis and discussion of the ideas: Slides LA and GDPR v0-07 How to do Learning Analytics under the GDPR The role(s) of Consent Incorporating […]

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How to Start Learning Analytics?

One of my guidelines for when consent may be an appropriate basis for processing personal data is whether the individual is able to lie or walk away. If they can, then that practical possibility may indicate a legal possibility too. When we’re using learning analytics, as a production service, to identify when students could benefit […]

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Jisc GDPR conference

For those who couldn’t make it to the Jisc GDPR conference last week (and those who did, but want a refresher) the slides are now available. Presenters were told to ensure they gave lots of practical advice, so whether you want ideas on GDPR in Further Education or Research; need to work on an asset […]

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Implementing the GDPR

Last week I spoke at the UCISA CISG-PCMG conference on some of the tools we have been using within Jisc to apply the requirements of the GDPR. UCISA has now published a recording of the session, as well as a copy of my slides. The previous day, I did a more detailed presentation on one […]

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Referendum: has the GDPR gone away?

A few hours after the result of Thursday’s referendum on membership of the European Union, I gave a presentation on the significance of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, due to come into force in May 2018. That might seem a waste of time, but my suggestion was that the referendum result might in fact […]