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

[clyde.cerejo at id.uzh.ch]

Hi Seb

Yes a user could be an IP Address. I suppose no other identifying 
information such as usernames etc are sent. Please correct me if Im wrong.

As per what you say, only aggregates of country data is sent to the 
browser for rendering using the google component, which would mean that it 
is not possible to identify individual users. Please confirm. Then it 
would be probably be ok for us. However, I still need to discuss this 
internally.

Thanks and regards
Clyde



Von:    Sebastien Francois <sf2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
An:     eprints-tech at ecs.soton.ac.uk, 
Datum:  24.06.2013 14:04
Betreff:        [EP-tech] Re: Antwort:  Re: IRStats 2 and data security
Gesendet von:   eprints-tech-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk



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 





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 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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