JISC Legal : News

The EU’s cyber security agency, ENISA has launched a practical guide for IT procurement teams which assesses the security of cloud service providers.

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.

The International Chamber of Commerce UK has published cookie guidance to help website operators move towards compliance with new consent requirements.

The Department for Education is to appeal the ICO decision which ordered Michael Gove to release information contained in private emails.

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

JISC Legal is contributing to the "Security and the Cloud" session at Networkshop, the technical conference for staff in education and research.

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.

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".

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.