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

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.

New IP guidance to enable businesses to protect their own IP and to respect the IP of others has been launched.

A user's consent is required before it is lawful to store and access information on their computer.

Recommendations made by the Hargreaves review of intellectual property and growth have been accepted by the Government.

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

A data controller is able to anonymise originally-personal data to make it free of data protection law constraints.

A new law that comes into force today (14 June 2011) in England and Wales will make it easier to protect patent and design rights.

Peer To Patent is an online system that aims to improve the quality of issued patents.

The European Commission has launched a consultation on cloud computing.  This will feed into the European cloud computing strategy due to be presented in 2012.

Users of online photo-sharing service may have unwittingly signed away the rights to their own images. 

Fines of up to £500,000 for the most serious incidents of sending unwanted emails.

Cloud computing and data protection, new research from Queen Mary, University of London.

The Budget supporting papers have indicated various proposed actions including a new Communications Act and proposals relating to intellectual property.

New law gives individuals more control over what information organisations can store on their computer.

The IPO newsletter includes links to IP related stories which have featured in the news in the last month, and an article on IP and website design.  

The Cloud Industry Forum has launched a Code of Practice for cloud service providers.