data protection

4 April 2019 at 11:55am

Intelligent Campus: Risks, Benefits and Ethics

Andrew Cormack
data protection
Privacy
Intelligent Campus
Data Protection Regulation
[Re-purposing an unused introduction to my full paper - "See no... Hear no... Track no..: Ethics and the Intelligent Campus" - that was published in the Journal of Information Rights, Policy and Practice this week]
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13 November 2015 at 11:54am

Future of Data Protection Forum

Andrew Cormack
data protection
Data Protection Regulation
incident response
Big Data
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 law.
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15 July 2015 at 10:29am

A Data Protection Framework for Learning Analytics

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
data protection
Since becoming involved in Jisc's work on learning analytics, I've been trying to work out the best place to fit the use of students' digital data to improve education into data protection law. I've now written up those thoughts as a paper, and submitted it to the Journal of Learning Analytics. As the abstract says:
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9 June 2015 at 2:45pm

Big Data: Wrongs and Rights

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
data protection
Last week I gave a seminar at Southampton University on how data protection law could provide support and guidance for universities' use of learning analytics. The next day Jisc launched a Code of Practice on Learning Analytics, which puts many of the same ideas into practical form.
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18 May 2015 at 8:40am

Data Protection Developments: How to Cope

Andrew Cormack
Data Protection Regulation
data protection
I've been at several conferences recently on how Data Protection law is developing, and they've left me less than optimistic. By the end of 2015 Europe will have been working for four years on a Regulation "on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data", but I’m now doubting whether the result will actually achieve either of those.
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8 April 2015 at 7:30pm

Apples and Oranges

Andrew Cormack
right to be forgotten
data protection
copyright
Intermediary Liability
In discussions of the "Right to be Forgotten" it is often observed that Google manages each month to deal with tens of millions of delisting requests for breach of copyright, as opposed to tens of thousands for inaccurate personal data. Often the implication seems to be that those numbers should be more similar.
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