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Posted on January 24, 2012 10:41
A juror who researched a defendant's history on the internet and forwarded details of what she found to fellow members was sentenced to a six month prison term.
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Posted on January 23, 2012 12:36
The increased use of Twitter, Facebook and email within institutions has led to a rise in unacceptable professional conduct.
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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 12:40
Gay pornography was not capable of “depraving and corrupting” according to a jury.
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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 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 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 12, 2011 10:18
Emails deceived students on government loans into providing financial details.
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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 06, 2011 12:49
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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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 ... (
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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 28, 2011 09:34
The Government's new set of objectives aim to combat cybercrime and promote economic growth in internet business.
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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 17, 2011 14:26
The new Education Act 2011 will focus inspection in four ‘core’ areas, one of which is behaviour and safety, which includes e-Safety.
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Posted on November 15, 2011 13:40
The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 are now in force and require that Equality Duty compliance information must be published by the end of January 2012.
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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 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 04, 2011 16:25
Embedding information rights in education project to be led by Edinburgh's Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.
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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 18, 2011 15:23
Recent case law has highlighted the risks of posting inappropriate comments to social networking sites and the importance of institutions having in place a robust internet use policy for both staff and learners, including a policy on the use of social media, to manage such risks.
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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 15, 2011 13:34
In a recent court case a man was jailed for improper user of a public electronic communications network.
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Posted on September 12, 2011 14:42
JISC Legal has today received a phishing email purporting to be from a student finance company.
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Posted on September 01, 2011 15:38
A user's consent is required before it is lawful to store and access information on their computer.
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Posted on August 31, 2011 18:21
Online defamation cases in England and Wales have more than doubled in the last year.
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Posted on August 31, 2011 14:45
Posted on August 02, 2011 16:05
In this guide, you’ll find summaries of the key legal considerations of using Facebook in an FE and HE context.
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Posted on August 02, 2011 16:01
In this guide, you’ll find summaries of the key legal considerations of using Facebook in an FE and HE context.
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Posted on July 26, 2011 16:19
Member of staff failed to realise they had made an error while carrying out work on the University’s IT system.
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Posted on July 12, 2011 10:29
A new research report from the University of Bedfordshire highlights the major role played by ICT in incidents of stalking.
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Posted on July 05, 2011 12:25
There are two legal issues here, the first concerns data protection, and the second concerns your duty of care to employees.
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Posted on June 17, 2011 15:40
On the basis that you have addressed the use of the film in terms of copyright and any other relevant intellectual property rights, we shall not comme...
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Posted on June 15, 2011 12:29
Two recent cases have highlighted the risks of posting inappropriate comments to social networking sites.
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Posted on June 03, 2011 11:31
We are pleased to announce the launch of JISC Legal Plus - a new staff development service bringing JISC Legal's expertise to your institution at competitive prices... (cont'd)
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Posted on May 19, 2011 09:41
This is a decision for the institution to make. There have certainly been various news articles highlighting privacy and data protection concerns related to Facebook, and similar issues apply to other external social networking sites ... (cont)
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Posted on May 11, 2011 10:59
Institutions who share data might be interested in the ICO's latest publication. They have published a statutory code of practice on data sharing by public sector bodies, businesses and other organisations.
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Posted on May 03, 2011 12:20
Covert monitoring is surveillance of online activity without giving the users involved specific notification that this is going on. It clearly has legal implications relating to ... (cont)
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Posted on April 27, 2011 10:41
Fines of up to £500,000 for the most serious incidents of sending unwanted emails.
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Posted on April 21, 2011 12:05
JISC Legal offer you a variety of resources to help you do this ... (cont)
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Posted on April 19, 2011 09:00
A recent EU survey finds that 77% of 13-16 year olds have a social networking profile and 25% say their profile is open to the public.
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Posted on April 04, 2011 09:00
The seventh data protection principle provides that "Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken ... (cont)
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Posted on March 15, 2011 12:28
We have issued two new guidance papers on OERs: Strategic Managment of IPR for OER in UK HE and Legal Aspects of the Use of Child Images in OERs.
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Posted on March 15, 2011 10:56
This paper considers the legal issues which arise in relation to the taking of or possession of images (still and moving) of children for use in an Open Education Resource.
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