JISC Legal : News

A Birmingham high school has been required to sign a formal undertaking after a laptop containing the unencrypted personal details of around a thousand staff and students was stolen. 

The consultation on a revised code of practice can be found on the Scottish Government website.

The Information Tribunal has ruled that redaction time cannot count towards Freedom of Information (FOI) cost capping. 

The Information Commissioner's Office has launched a consultation on new guidance governing online privacy.

Changes to Facebook mean users are being encouraged towards more open privacy settings.

The Information Commisioner's Office has published new guidance on the Data Protection Act.

The email system of a leading research unit based at the University of East Anglia has been hacked.

An event designed to resolve the legal challenges of creating and sharing open educational resources. 

In response to a call from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) the government are consulting on amending the Data Protection Act 1998.

A new notification fee of £500 was introduced for some larger institutions on 1 October 2009.

Consultation now open on Scottish Government privacy proposals.

Unencrypted laptops are not sufficiently secure, say ICO.

Increase in investigations and disciplinary actions for data leakage through email, social networks and blogs.

UK Digital Archive (UKDA) workshops on managing and sharing research data, including copyright, confidentiality and ethics.

Professor claimed unauthorised access to sensitive data.

ICO concerned about plans to gather more communications data.

Stolen 'password protected' laptops lacked adequate security - ICO.

Five NHS Trusts have been criticised by the ICO over loss of patients' sensitive personal data.

A man has been jailed for snooping in on police databases to collect information for terrorists.

Amberhawk Training Limited have announced the launch of a new information law blog called "Hawktalk".