The Article 29 Working Party of European data protection supervisors had hoped to make a full statement on the EU/US Safe Harbor agreement at the end of January. However this has now been postponed, probably until mid-April. The European Court of Justice declared last October that the original Safe Harbor did not guarantee adequate protection […]
[this article is based on the draft text published by the European Council on 28th January 2016. Recital and article numbers, at least, will change before the final text] The final version of the Data Protection Regulation’s breach notification proposals has addressed many of my concerns with the original draft. Rather than applying the same […]
This document provides an introduction to the work of the UK e-Infrastructure Security and Access Management Working Group and the papers it has published. JR0059_E-INFRASTRUCTURES_WORKING_GROUP_SUMMARY Members of the group are: Stephen Booth, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Peter Boyle, Edinburgh University David Britton, Glasgow University John Chapman, Jisc (Secretary) Andrew Cormack, Jisc (Chair) Darren Hankinson, Manchester […]
The various organisations participating in an e-infrastructure are likely to have their own policies on its use; harmonising those policies offers an opportunity to implement them more accurately, efficiently and effectively. This paper discusses how policies are likely to interact and how those developing policies can benefit from the coordination provided by using a common […]
As its title suggests, the Commission’s public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy covers a lot of different areas. One of these is the rules for on-line intermediaries: at present networks, caches and hosts that carry third party content. Back in 2012 we responded […]
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as the body given responsibility by the Home Office for monitoring compliance with the Prevent duty in the higher education sector in England, has now announced how it will perform this responsibility. Full details can be found at the links to the HEFCE website below: the following […]
[roughly what I said in a presentation yesterday to the Northern Universities’ Consortium] I’ve been a full or part-time student for more than thirty years. It’s interesting to reflect on how my student record has changed over that time. In 1981 university administrators no doubt put my typed application in a paper file. Each year […]
Some very interesting and positive messages came out of this week’s Future of Data Protection Forum. Interestingly the forum didn’t just focus on the draft European Regulation: partly because the final state of that is still unclear, but also because there was general agreement that reputable organisations shouldn’t aim merely to comply with data protection […]
The European Commission have recently announced a consultation into online platforms. Last month the House of Lords EU Internal Market Sub-committee invited submissions of evidence to inform the UK’s response. Although the main focus of both consultations is competition issues, they do revisit the question of intermediary liability for third-party postings. At the moment EU […]
The Government has today published its draft Investigatory Powers Bill. There are 299 pages in the legislation alone, so for now I’ve been looking at the parts most likely to affect Janet and its customers. So far I’ve looked at a bit less than half of the Bill: further implications, if any, will be the […]