[OSX-Users] OSX upgrade warning

[Christopher Gutteridge]

That's guidance for people who don't have a better understanding of data 
protection.

I'm not an official spokesman for this, but you should not be storing 
data about *people* in inappropriate storage. This includes any data 
about identifiable people, such as non-public attendance lists for an 
event. It also includes non-structured data like email! Most important 
of all are the sensitive categories such as race, religion, etc.

We often use google docs to gather information about things. but not 
about people.

On 21/09/2016 13:29, Jules Field wrote:
>
>
> On 21/09/2016 13:19, Tim Chown wrote:
>>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 09:13, Christopher Gutteridge 
>>> <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> iSolutions have some notes for university OSX users considering 
>>> upgrading to Sierra.
>>>
>>> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/service-status/index.page
>> Gosh, this seems rather nuts.
>>
>> a) a major anti-virus company doesn’t have its act together for a 
>> major new OS
>>
>> b) the university has its head in the sand over shadow IT… who 
>> *doesn’t* have a dropbox/box/icloud/google drive account?  It’ll be a 
>> small number.
>>
>> tim
> The ship referred to in (b) has already sailed, got beaten up in a 
> storm, sunk, been turned to oil, pumped back out the ground again and 
> used to manufacture the iPhone 7. :-)
>
> The Univ does not have its head in the sand over shadow IT at the top 
> of the univ, just some bits in the middle. :)
>
> Jules
>

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