[OSX-Users] OSX upgrade warning

[Jules Field]

We have OneDrive for Business. (which incidentally is not good for a lot 
of purposes, I've done a lot of testing of it.)

On 21/09/2016 14:53, Tim Chown wrote:
> Very true Chris, but I wonder who is following that.  Dropbox is so much easier than the J drive in some many ways.
>
> Has the uni signed up to any branded commercial “box” type solution?
>
> Tim
>
>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 13:35, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>
>> University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
>> You should read our Web & Data Innovation blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>

Jules

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