The Ministry of Justice has put out a call for evidence to data controllers and other interested groups on the likely impact of the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation and Directive.

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The focus of the seminar will be on the European Commission's proposed comprehensive reform of data protection rules.  

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A new report published by Beatbullying considers the state of cyberbullying amongst children, young people and teachers in the UK. 

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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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Scottish Parliament to approve the appointment of Rosemary Agnew as the new Scottish Information Commissioner.

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The new ICO  guidance is a plain English guide aimed at public authorities and provides a basic overview of the law.

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We have introduced shortened URLs to make life easier for you.

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A tribunal found that where emails are deleted but still exist on back-up servers, they are nonetheless considered to be ‘held’ by an organisation and subject to FOI legislation. 

 

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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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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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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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The new proposals aim to update and harmonise the current EU data protection regime including strengthening individuals’ rights.

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The new proposals aim to update and harmonise the current EU data protection regime including strengthening individuals’ rights.

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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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The Intellectual Property Office is looking for input on the new small patent claims procedures proposals, which have been designed to simplify and speed up the process.

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New guidance for colleges and universities has been produced to help maximise the return on investment in knowledge transfer activities.

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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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The fees regulations under FOI broadly cover 2 areas- (1) Fee charges for information provided through the publication scheme and (2) fee charges for specific information requests

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JISC Legal is working in partnership with JISC Advance and RSC Wales to offer a free online seminar on Cloud Computing and the Law.

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A new special report to the Scottish Parliament discusses the current state of FOI in Scotland.

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

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The ICO describes its approach to security compliance, information rights outcomes sought and current fields of action.

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The Law Society has published a practice note that examines the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. 

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FE and HE institutions have an opportunity to contribute their views on copyright licensing in the UK as Richard Hooper issues a call for evidence as part of the independent feasibility study into the development of a Digital Copyright Exchange for the UK (DCE).

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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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The Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner this week published its report of an audit of Facebook Ireland Ltd.  

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Colleges and universities have the opportunity to provide evidence of their own experiences in working with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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The UK Government has highlighted the cost burden which may be placed on public authorities in complying with some FOI requests for information.

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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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To stream a feature film there are two issues involved, and two possible sets of permission required .... (cont)

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The ICO has published new guidance on access to official business held in private email accounts.

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The Advertising Standards Authority recently reported a marked increase in complaints about digital marketing communications, following a change to their remit in this regard earlier this year.

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The law has changed that applies to how institutions must use cookies.

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A consultation has been announced to gather evidence on proposals to widen copyright exceptions including private copying, non-commercial research and library archiving.

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Guidance has been issued by the ICO on how the rules apply for those operating websites and using cookies.

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A leaked draft EU regulation reveals that legal requirements under data protection law will be tightened up.

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A council has been fined £130,000 after a further breach of the Data Protection Act.

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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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The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills today published its Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth which includes a number of actions and initiatives which will be of interest to universities.

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An organisation has recently been prosecuted for failing to notify the ICO that it processed personal data.

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The High Court has ruled that search giant Google does not have to pay damages for defamation suffered to a UK intelligence adviser via a blogging platform which Google owns.

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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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The Cabinet Office recently published this document in order to encourage effective use of public sector data.  

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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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Facebook's tighter rules on consent and privacy should help colleges and universities in the UK.

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 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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Penalties of £60,000 and £80,000 are served after highly sensitive personal information is emailed to the wrong recipients.

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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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