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In a recent court case a man was jailed for improper user of a public electronic communications network.

Cloud computing - two further papers by the Queen Mary University of London, School of Law Cloud Legal Project

An EU Directive extending the term of copyright in sound recordings to 70 years was adopted at a meeting of the Council of Ministers on 12th September 2011.

The Scottish Government is consulting on changes to the draft regulations relating to the public sector equality duty.

JISC Legal has today received a phishing email purporting to be from a student finance company.

A medical student on placement at a hospital transferred personal information of patients onto an unencrypted medical stick.

A user's consent is required before it is lawful to store and access information on their computer.

Online defamation cases in England and Wales have more than doubled in the last year.

A recent ICO audit of Google has found improvements in the corporation's privacy standards. 

Over one third of UK universities now use an externally hosted email service.

The number of successsful prosecutions for infringment of UK copyright laws has increased, according to a report into intellectual property crime published this week.  

Two solicitors were each fined £20,000 and suspended from practising for three months by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) for sending intimidating letters to individuals they accused of illegal filesharing. 

The Government has launched a consultation on Open Data.  

Vince Cable has announced that controversial plans to force ISPs to block websites that host copyright infringing material are to be dumped. 

The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has confirmed that nearly 30,000 Scottish school pupils received their exam results a day early.   

Recommendations made by the Hargreaves review of intellectual property and growth have been accepted by the Government.

According to the ICO, tweets addressed to an institution may constitute valid Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

Member of staff failed to realise they had made an error while carrying out work on the University’s IT system.

A research centre at Stirling University refused a request for information from a tobacco company on the grounds that it was vexatious under FOISA.

A new research report from the University of Bedfordshire highlights the major role played by ICT in incidents of stalking.