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Posted on February 02, 2012 10:59
The recent demise of a file sharing service highlights the risks for colleges and universities in considering a move to the cloud or other external service providers.
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Posted on January 30, 2012 11:04
On five occasions, a local authority sent sensitive personal information about children and carers to the wrong people causing obvious ‘serious upset’.
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Posted on January 30, 2012 09:38
The ICO has launched a campaign called Access Aware aimed at increasing awareness within organisations of their data protection obligations in particular what a subject access request looks like and what to do if one is received.
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Posted on January 27, 2012 09:42
Under the
Freedom of information Act 2000 (FOIA) at
s.1(1) any person making a request for information held by a public authority is entitled to have it provided to him. Most colleges and universities are public authorities under the FOIA and student coursework held by a university or college would be ‘information held’.
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Posted on January 26, 2012 11:42
The new proposals aim to update and harmonise the current EU data protection regime including strengthening individuals’ rights.
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Posted on January 26, 2012 11:19
The new proposals aim to update and harmonise the current EU data protection regime including strengthening individuals’ rights.
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Posted on January 24, 2012 14:25
New supplementary guidance from the GMC entitled 'Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients' is now available from their website.
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Posted on January 19, 2012 13:01
Social networking sites are changing privacy settings by default which means users' information could be passed on to third party sites.
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Posted on January 13, 2012 12:29
Further to our news posting last month, we can confirm that the proposal for the review of the EU Directive (95/46/EC) has been delayed until late February/March.
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Posted on January 12, 2012 14:12
This guidance is intended for staff in independent specialist colleges that provide further education or training for learners with varying learning needs due to disability issues.
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Posted on January 12, 2012 13:33
The ICO has updated guidance on how public electronic communications service providers should respond to security breaches.
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Posted on January 09, 2012 14:18
The ICO describes its approach to security compliance, information rights outcomes sought and current fields of action.
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Posted on January 06, 2012 15:12
The Law Society has published a practice note that examines the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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Posted on December 23, 2011 09:54
The blog post at http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/law-and-media-tweets-and-tweeters-updated-105-people-to-follow-judith-townend/ gives a u...
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Posted on December 22, 2011 15:47
The Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner this week published its report of an audit of Facebook Ireland Ltd.
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Posted on December 22, 2011 12:40
These top tips serve as a quick reminder of the main areas to be addressed and sources of help available when recording lectures.
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Posted on December 21, 2011 10:05
Any monitoring of systems, even if it is minimal, must be done only after consent has been sought from the persons who are subject to monitoring
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Posted on December 15, 2011 12:44
The ICO has published new guidance on access to official business held in private email accounts.
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Posted on December 15, 2011 11:00
The law has changed that applies to how institutions must use cookies.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 10:30
Guidance has been issued by the ICO on how the rules apply for those operating websites and using cookies.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 08:30
A leaked draft EU regulation reveals that legal requirements under data protection law will be tightened up.
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Posted on December 12, 2011 16:37
A council has been fined £130,000 after a further breach of the Data Protection Act.
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Posted on December 09, 2011 16:27
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.
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Posted on December 07, 2011 16:24
An organisation has recently been prosecuted for failing to notify the ICO that it processed personal data.
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Posted on December 06, 2011 11:11
New advice and guidance on making and using clinical healthcare recordings funded by the Strategic Content Alliance for learning and teaching launches today.
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Posted on December 02, 2011 15:34
The Cabinet Office recently published this document in order to encourage effective use of public sector data.
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Posted on December 01, 2011 11:00
A cleaner at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary who allegedly contacted a female patient on Facebook has been charged with breach of data protection.
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Posted on November 30, 2011 11:37
Facebook's tighter rules on consent and privacy should help colleges and universities in the UK.
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Posted on November 30, 2011 10:01
Data protection and other legal issues remain the same for a college or university when hosting, offering or using blogs, wikis, and any other ... (
cont)
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Posted on November 28, 2011 13:52
Penalties of £60,000 and £80,000 are served after highly sensitive personal information is emailed to the wrong recipients.
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Posted on November 25, 2011 21:39
Find out what your institution should be doing about its use of cookies in the JISC Legal article entitled "Cookies - Six months Until Enforcement".
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Posted on November 25, 2011 17:07
The law has changed that applies to how cookies are used by websites.
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Posted on November 25, 2011 12:24
The ICO has launched a campaign to get views about what information public authorities including FE and HE institutions should proactively release.
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Posted on November 23, 2011 11:27
A new report finds there have been over 1000 cases of personal data loss since 2008 including those involving a significant number of mobile devices.
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Posted on November 22, 2011 11:58
This guidance is designed to help institutions deal with consent management when sharing personal data across and between institutions and external service providers.
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Posted on November 15, 2011 10:30
New tools being developed will shield personal data and reveal when sites do not respect privacy requests.
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Posted on November 14, 2011 11:26
This annual conference will look at how far FOI has progressed in Scotland and will highlight the key FOI issues that need to be taken forward.
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Posted on November 09, 2011 16:01
Prior explicit consent to processing will be necessary under proposed new EU data protection laws.
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Posted on November 09, 2011 15:43
The EU Commission is tasked with producing proposals to reform the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive by the end of January 2012.
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Posted on November 03, 2011 12:47
ACAS guide offers practical tips on the impact of social networking on discipline and grievances, bullying, defamation, data protection and privacy.
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Posted on October 31, 2011 10:21
Four out of ten students online are concerned about how their online profiles might affect their future.
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Posted on October 28, 2011 13:37
It is important to recognise that in any situation where a data controller is using a data processor, the data controller remains responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA).
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Posted on October 27, 2011 12:00
The Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA) limits the transfer of personal data to countries within the European Economic Area (EEA) (the eighth data protection principle).
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Posted on October 26, 2011 14:18
Act Now Training present this one hour online introductory session on cloud computing and data protection - details available at
http://www.actnow.org.uk/courses/611
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Posted on October 13, 2011 16:48
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.
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Posted on October 13, 2011 11:32
Proposals in the Protection of Freedoms Bill include amending the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to create a new ‘right to data’ so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public.
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Posted on October 13, 2011 11:29
The US Patriot Act is intended to assist terrorism prevention in the US and permits access to data by the US intelligence services in certain circumstances, including, but not limited to, in the interests of national security
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Posted on September 30, 2011 16:59
This guidance indicate how requests for access to personal information held in complaint files should be handled.
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Posted on September 14, 2011 15:37
Cloud computing - two further papers by the Queen Mary University of London, School of Law Cloud Legal Project
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Posted on September 14, 2011 12:49
Came into force on 31 December 2009.
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