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In terms of copyright law, screenings by a university or college film club will be considered as showing a work in public and as such will be one of the restricted acts which the copyright owner is able to control under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA).

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The ICO wishes to update publication scheme requirements to increase the information proactively made available by public authorities including universities and colleges.

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A new research report from the University of Bedfordshire highlights the major role played by ICT in incidents of stalking.

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Two recent cases have highlighted the risks of posting inappropriate comments to social networking sites.

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Failings in the technical process of redacting sensitive material from documents before publishing on line resulted in the blacked out portions being visible if copied and pasted into another document.

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

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This latest decision on disclosure of information prejudicial to the effective conduct of public affairs as it applies to statistical information outlines the ICO current thinking on the application of the prejudice and public interest tests. 
 

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The Draft Equality Act (Statutory Duties) Regulations 2011 for England have been withdrawn by the government for further review.

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Personal information including dates of birth, bank details and medical information was dumped in a skip which was then stolen.

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This conference is organised by Cimtech in partnership with The National Archives and its topical focus includes records management in the cloud and the potential of shared services.

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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.  

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The Information Commissioner has required a council to give an undertaking that it will encrypt memory sticks used to carry sensitive personal data.

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The Scottish Information Commissioner’s terms and conditions on use of information have been updated with effect from 23 Feb 2011 to permit use of information, including that on their website, under the Open Government Licence for public sector information.

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Janet Guidelines to assist universities and colleges in handling indecent images of children found on their information systems.

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The RIN is holding a free one-day workshops on FOI and research, at Strathclyde University on 12 April 2011, aimed in particular at the higher education research community.

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We have recently added two law watch notices to our website which will be of interest to those responsible for institutional information governance.

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