Galactic Radio Telescope (GRT) Legitimate Interest Assessment

Legitimate Interests

• We want to process the data in order to improve the Galaxy service and be able to run more user jobs simultaneously, optimising our usage of compute resources.
• UseGalaxy.eu, the wider Galaxy community, and the public benefit from our collection of this data.
• The data is made available, free of charge, for anyone to analyse and draw conclusions about tool runtimes and cpu/memory usage based on input parameters.
• The benefit to optimising resource consumption is significant.
• If we could not go ahead we will continue to poorly schedule resources and not be able to freely support all of our users.
• Our usage is ethical and lawful.

Necessity Test

• The processing of the data is necessary to achieve the goals of the GRT project.
• This is the only way to go about it.
• We only obtain and send the minimum amount of data required to process the analysis.

Balancing Test

• We have a contract with the user who is providing the data, which they entered into voluntarily.
• None of the data is sensitive data.
• None of the data is private data.
• None of the data is personal data.
• Some examples of the data transmitted to the GRT service and exposed publicly are provided below.
• People generally expect that we analyse and optimise our resource usage in order to reduce costs and improve quality of services provided.
• We are happy to explain as needed.
• It is unlikely that this will be considered intrusive. It is possible that some users may object to the processing of their information and we can provide an opt-out mechanism.
• We know nothing of the identity or classification of any users on our service. We have no interest in this knowledge as it does not help our processing of this data.
• We have adopted a filtering mechanism to remove any potentially sensitive parameters.
• We can allow users to opt-out.

Examples of Data Shared

Please note that NO user identifiers are included anywhere in the results. There are additionally no identifiers that could link a data point back to the original user.

Job Data:

id	tool_id	tool_version	state	create_time
2018626	toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repos/bgruening/deeptools_plot_heatmap/deeptools_plot_heatmap/2.5.1.1.0	2.5.1.1.0	ok	2017-10-22 09:44:24.077315

Job Metric Data:

job_id	plugin	name	value
2018526	cpuinfo	processor_count	24.0000000
2018526	core	runtime_seconds	11.0000000
2018526	core	galaxy_slots	1.0000000
2018526	core	start_epoch	1508592081.0000000
2018526	core	end_epoch	1508592092.0000000

Job Parameter Data:

job_id	name	value
2018526	chromInfo	{"chromInfo": "/usr/local/galaxy/galaxy-dist/tool-data/shared/ucsc/chrom/mm10.len"}
2018526	input	{"input": {"values": [{"src": "hda", "id": 4464980, "size": 26941}]}}
2018526	delimiter	{"delimiter": ""}
2018526	cut_type_options	{"cut_type_options": {"list": ["9"], "__current_case__": 0, "cut_element": "-f"}}
2018526	dbkey	{"dbkey": "mm10"}
2018526	complement	{"complement": ""}

Conclusion

We have concluded that we have a Legitimate Interest in processing this data due to the ability of not just our organisation but the entire world to benefit from processing data in this way.