[EP-tech] Re: Antwort: Re: IRStats 2 and data security

[Sebastien Francois]

What do you call a user? an IP address?

EPrints stores the IP address of a download request (in the 'access' 
dataset), IRStats2 processes it in order to find out its geo-location 
(the country). Aggregates of country data is rendered on the GeoMap.

^^ that's the only scenario where something is done with the IP address 
within IRStats2. Other metrics don't require that piece of information.

Seb.



On 24/06/13 12:56, clyde.cerejo at id.uzh.ch wrote:
> Hi Seb
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> For us it is important that all data being sent outside our system - 
>  the generated statistics and graphs as well as data being transferred 
> in the background, is always aggregated data only without the 
> possibility of identifying individual users. Is this guaranteed?
>
> Regards
> Clyde
>
>
>
> Von: Sebastien Francois <sf2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> An: eprints-tech at ecs.soton.ac.uk,
> Datum: 24.06.2013 13:03
> Betreff: [EP-tech] Re: IRStats 2 and data security
> Gesendet von: eprints-tech-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk
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>
>
> Hi Clyde,
>
> The following Google Charts are used by IRStats2:
>
> - Area Charts: 
> _https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/areachart_
> - Column Charts: 
> _https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/columnchart_
> - Combo Charts: 
> _https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/combochart_
> - Pie Charts: 
> _https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/piechart_
>
> These 4 have the same data policy (look at the bottom of each of the 
> pages above):
>
> Data Policy
> All code and data are processed and rendered in the browser. No data 
> is sent to any server.
>
>
> - Geo Charts: 
> _https://google-developers.appspot.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/geochart_
>
> That one seems a bit more tricky: 
> _https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/terms_
>
> Note that the Geo map can easily be replaced by a simple table which 
> is rendered outside Google Charts. Anyway there's a known issue with 
> EPrints 3.2 and EPrints 3.3 up to 3.3.9 which prevents the Geo Map to 
> load successfully (clash with Prototype v1.7- fixed in 1.7.1).
>
> The way the code generally works is this way:
>
> - browser loads JS library from Google's servers: 
> _http://www.google.com/jsapi_
> - local JS code instantiates a Chart and feeds it data
> - Chart renders data locally.
>
> For info, tables and other bits of IRStats2 (exporters etc) are 
> rendered outside Google Charts.
>
> I hope this will help you.
>
> Kind regards,
> Seb.
>
>
>
>
> On 24/06/13 11:43, _clyde.cerejo at id.uzh.ch_ 
> <mailto:clyde.cerejo at id.uzh.ch>wrote:
> Hi all
>
> To the developers of IRStats 2:
>
> In general, as a government organisation we are not allowed to send usage
> data to third parties like Google. Could you please give me exact
> information about which data are being sent to Google/other parties by
> IRStats 2? That way, I could investigate further if we would be legally
> allowed to use IRStats 2.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards
> Clyde Cerejo
>
> University of Zurich
>
>
>
>
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