Sigh….
They live in terror that any material is removed from machines by folks not authorised to be there. The campus is open, anyone can enter buildings. And hordes of Russian hacker groups are attacking every week. Apart from those guys, there’s lawyers… GDPR has implications beyond cookies, confidential files, any form of information about students, all trigger GDPR cautions.
So, if they can, admin lock things down, damn the probabilities. Hence no external drives, no AirDrop… Staff laptops are probably the hardest hit. It has infuriated many technically adept staff. The majority have just gone along with things. But i know of entire programmes being run off external services like Slack, or even Facebook/WhatsApp. Which is a timebomb.