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The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 are now in force and require that Equality Duty compliance information must be published by the end of January 2012.

New tools being developed will shield personal data and reveal when sites do not respect privacy requests.

Prior explicit consent to processing will be necessary under proposed new EU data protection laws.

Embedding information rights in education project to be led by Edinburgh's Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.

ACAS guide offers practical tips on the impact of social networking on discipline and grievances, bullying, defamation, data protection and privacy.

Four out of ten students online are concerned about how their online profiles might affect their future.

The ICO wishes to update publication scheme requirements to increase the information proactively made available by public authorities including universities and colleges.

The Protection of Freedoms Bill was read for the third time and passed by the House of Commons on 11 October 2011.  The Bill will now be considered by the House of Lords.

The ICO has produced guidance to aid understanding and application of FOI legislation for higher education institutions with a particular focus on research information.

New IP guidance to enable businesses to protect their own IP and to respect the IP of others has been launched.

A new working group has been set up to examine how UK-funded research can be made more accessible.

Raising the awareness and understanding of IP among students is key to achieving an IP savvy graduate workforce.