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IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses sho...
Progress Report: ePrivacy Regulation
Alongside the 1995 Data Protection Directive (DPD) sat the 2002 ePrivacy Directive (ePD), ...
TLS 1.2 and updated RADIUS requirements
TL;DR - TLS 1.2 negotiation in forthcoming OS releases require sites running RADIATOR, FreeRADIUS 2 and FreeRADIUS 3 to upgrade, NPS sites may need reconfiguring.OverviewTesting with forthcoming OS releases - wpa_supplicant 2.4 (wpa_supplicant is used in Android and Linux) - has shown issues with TLS 1.2 negotiation with various RADIUS servers that we have tested and have acces...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated to include an example where multiple justifications are appropriate]One of the key steps in preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation is to know why you are processing each set of personal data, and which of the six legal justifications applies: consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interest, public interest or legitimate interest. The Regulation signif...
GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to...
I was recently asked how the GDPR's Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives...
Janet Cumbria Regional Delivery Service ...
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of May 2018....
Improving reliability of Microsoft NPS a...
I've spent a fair bit of time over the past month trying to improve the reliability of...
Janet Wales service report May 2018
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA...
Janet Wales service report April 2018
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA...
Walled garden for onboarding user device...
This document is intended for the system administrators at member organisations and descri...
RADIUS Server Choice Guide for eduroam
The RADIUS implementations most likely to be deployed or implemented at the present time a...
GDPR: Twelve Steps, Sorted
Although the Information Commissioner's "Twelve Steps to Prepare" is an exce...
FreeRADIUS Best Current Practice Configu...
Author - Dr Alan Buxey 27/2/2012This document is not a FreeRADIUS tutorial. Instead it explores best practices for FreeRADIUS configuration for use with eduroam both as a Visited or Home service. It concentrates on RADIUS interaction with the eduroam(UK) NRPSs rather than home user authentication against local user database. The latter is very broad in scope considering the ran...
Incident response, logfiles and the GDPR
The Article 29 Working Party has recently highlighted the importance of detecting and mitigating information security breaches. One of the key tools in doing this is logfiles: the European Court of Justice in Breyer v Germany recognised the role of web server logs, the Article 29 Working Party guidelines mention logs and network flow data. Common questions are "what logs d...
What's the data protection difference be...
[UPDATE] a slightly revised version of this post formed our response to the ICO consultati...
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:How to do Learning Analytics under the GDPRThe role(s) of ConsentIncorporating Special Category Data into Learning AnalyticsMy other blog posts on learning analyti...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutorials, and how this fitted into data protection law. Since the main purpose of such monitoring seems to be to identify and assist students who don't attend, and whose presence is therefore not recorded or processed, there seem to be a number of both practical and legal issues to think ab...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
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Over recent months the GDPR has given extra weight to concerns -...
Over recent months the GDPR has given extra weight to concerns -...
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This document is intended for the system administrators at member organisations and describes an implementation of a 'walled garden' network service that only gives...
Using eduroam Support site; Connecting to the NRPS; User on-boarding – CAT
This document is intended for the system administrators at...
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of May 2018.
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of May 2018.
This document is intended for the system administrators at member organisations and describes an implementation of a 'walled garden' network service that only gives...