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A survey by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has found that Europeans are unclear about where their personal data is stored online and who should take the lead in protecting their online data.

A member of Gwent police force is facing possible dismissal, after accidentally sending an unsecure email attachment containing sensitive personal data to a journalist.

Research claims many schools breach data protection in use of CCTV.

On 8 April 2010 the Equality Act received royal assent after completing its parliamentary process.

The Digital Economy Act 2010 was given royal assent late on Thursday, 8 April 2010, following the final reading of the Digital Economy Bill in the House of Commons, the previous night.

A recent High Court ruling held that the operator of a blogging website can avoid liability for content posted on his website so long as he does not interfere with the original posting.

JISC Digital Media has produced a guide to font licensing entitled 'Fonts: Basic Guide to Font Licensing.'  This guide provides detailed information on using End User License Agreements and provides details specific to Adobe, Microsoft Office and Apple.

From 6 April 2010 the Information Commissioner's Office will have the power to serve notices requiring organisations to pay up to £500,000 for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act.

A recent High Court ruling found an indexing company which sorts postings to Usenet groups liable for the copyright infringing actions of its users.

A Good Practice Guide in the creation of course packs. 

JISC has commissioned a study into the effectiveness of its e-Learning programme.  If you would like to take part in the online survey, or register your interest in participating in the telephone interviews, visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GLLXNJH.

In the recent case of H & L v A and B City Council, the High Court considered whether or not it was lawful for a local authority to disclose information on a particular individual who had been convicted of an indecent assault on a child. 

Sam Courtney from Dorset Adult Learning has been randomly selected from a number of online evaluations received by JISC Legal to win a Nintendo DSi, following the webcast 'Safeguarding: Meeting Your e-Safety Duties'' delivered on 3 March 2010.

JISC has launched a toolkit to allow a better understanding of the legal issues involved in managing identity issues.

JISC Legal's Safeguarding- Meeting your e-Safety Duties Webcast from 03/03/2010 is now available to watch or download on our website.

JISC Legal's Jason Miles-Campbell presented "Five Top Copyright Law Tips for Colleges and Universities" as part of RSC Scotland South & West's RSCtv programme on Tuesday, 9 March 2010..

Under new Government proposals the amount of fees that solicitors can charge for successful libel cases on a no-win, no-fee basis will dramatically be reduced from April this year. 

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has issued its opinion on the concepts of the terms 'controller' and 'processor.'

Every single YouTube video with English language audio can now support captioning created by speech recognition software thus improving the sites accessibility for videos. 

On Thursday, 7 March 2010, we had our 1000th subscriber to JISC Legal's free once-a-month newsletter, keeping the UK's colleges and universities up-to-date on matters of ICT and the law.