reMarkable – not approved at UiO

What is reMarkable

Writing tablet with the ability to synchronize with cloud services and unencrypted data storage
For security reasons, the reMarkable tablet is not recommended for acquisition and use at UiO.
For users of reMarkable at UiO, this means that you will not receive support from the IT department regarding the device, even if it has been acquired through UiO funds and/or through approved UiO suppliers.
Furthermore, this means that the use of synchronization software for the device on UiO-operated machines will not be approved.
Currently, a trial of the reMarkable with the Enterprise solution is ongoing at UiO. However, this does not change the general recommendation that reMarkable should not be used.

reMarkable should not be acquired at UiO. If you already have a reMarkable tablet, it can only be used with green data.

The reMarkable tablet should not be acquired or used at UiO.

The reason for this is that the built-in storage of the tablets cannot be encrypted. Such unencrypted storage can only be used for green data. If the tablet is set up to synchronize and retrieve documents from storage solutions approved for up to yellow data at UiO (UiO-Dropbox, Google Suite, and Microsoft 365 (OneDrive and SharePoint)), this would violate the information security regulations at UiO.
UiO has not entered into a data processing agreement for reMarkable's own cloud service. Access to important functionality requires users to establish a continuous service subscription. The subscription is necessary for synchronizing data to cloud services for which UiO has a data processor agreement.
For definitions of green and yellow data, see UiO's website on information classification and UiO's storage guide.
On this basis, the IT Director decided on February 15, 2022, that reMarkable tablets should not be acquired at UiO, as the cost is too high in relation to what they can be used for at UiO. Privately acquired tablets can be used for green data.
USIT is monitoring the development of reMarkable and will reassess the classification and recommendation if the tablets can be encrypted in the future.
Currently, a trial of the reMarkable with the Enterprise solution is ongoing at UiO. However, this does not change the general recommendation that reMarkable should not be used.