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A tribunal found that where emails are deleted but still exist on back-up servers, they are nonetheless considered to be ‘held’ by an organisation and subject to FOI legislation. 

The ICO has updated guidance on how public electronic communications service providers should respond to security breaches.

The ICO has published new guidance on access to official business held in private email accounts.

The High Court states that even where private individuals are expressing their own views online the requirements of lawful processing in the DPA can apply.

The ICO has launched a campaign to get views about what information public authorities including FE and HE institutions should proactively release.

From the beginning of this month UCAS became subject to the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in relation to some of its functions. 

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.

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

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.