JISC Legal : News

An employment tribunal recently held that an employee was fairly sacked for posting obscene Facebook messages.

The Digital Economy Act 2010 was given royal assent late on Thursday, 8 April 2010, following the final reading of the Digital Economy Bill in the House of Commons, the previous night.

Guidance has been issued for government departments and other public sector bodies on how to comply with the new cookies regulations.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s Do Not Track proposals are a step towards standards that will enable a user's browser settings to be used to manage consent to cookies.

Durham University breached the Data Protection Act after disclosing personal information on its website.

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.

Find out what your institution should be doing about its use of cookies in the JISC Legal article entitled "Cookies - Six months Until Enforcement".

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.

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.

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.

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