JISC Legal : All News

ICO issues handbook on handling personal information and managing privacy risks.

Legal team denied access to pupil database due to potential human rights violation.

Phishing emails are targeting the academic community.

British Standards Institution publish guide on data protection compliance.

The European Commission wants a single EU patent to cover all countries signed up to the European Patent Convention.

New measures are introduced expanding the existing criteria for the Disabled Students Allowance.

Universal and Warner Bros are suing a European web video start up that they claim is illegally profiting from broadcasting their movies online. 

Information Commissioner makes decision on Cambridge University FOI case.

More than 200 laptops, PCs and memory sticks containing confidential data have been lost by Scottish councils and health boards.

The Department of Health in conjunction with the Information Commissioner allows patients to delete  thier records.

Bloggers are at increasing risk of getting sued or threatened with legal action regarding their online postings.

German Data Protection regulator threatens Google if the search engine fails to comply with privacy laws.

The University of Manchester has inadvertently published the personal data of 1700 students.

New research carried out by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the Teacher Support Network demonstrates that as many as one in ten teachers suffer from bullying via texts, emails and social networking sites.

The UK Government wants the creative industries to set up a rights agency to support legislation and the legal use of online content, raise public awareness of the consequences of piracy and help resolve disputes. 

JISC Legal delivers a webcast on 'Web 2.0 and the Law for e-Tutors'.

The European Commission has pledged to take action to prevent new technologies invading the privacy of individuals.

European Court of Human Rights maintains a new defamation action can be brought for every access to online defamatory material.

Draft regulations to implement the last part of Directive 2006/24/EC in the UK, were issued on 17 February 2009. The regulations will apply to data generated or processed in the UK by public communication providers.