JISC Legal : News

Unencrypted laptops are not sufficiently secure, say ICO.

Results are in from Scottish Government's FOISA survey on Section 61 Code of Practice on Records Management.

Increase in investigations and disciplinary actions for data leakage through email, social networks and blogs.

Professor claimed unauthorised access to sensitive data.

ICO concerned about plans to gather more communications data.

Stolen 'password protected' laptops lacked adequate security - ICO.

Five NHS Trusts have been criticised by the ICO over loss of patients' sensitive personal data.

UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) rules that a web page can be considered prior art and the date on the webpage could be taken at face value.

A man has been jailed for snooping in on police databases to collect information for terrorists.

Amberhawk Training Limited have announced the launch of a new information law blog called "Hawktalk".

New Regulations increase the annual notification fee to £500 for some FE and HE institutions that are not charities. 

The Ministry of Justice has published the 4th report on the operation of the FOI 2000 Act in Central Government 2008. 

UK Information Commissioner’s Office seeks interested parties to undertake a privacy research project.

The ICO has published privacy notice codes of practice.

BCS has published the 'Personal Data Guardianship Code' for confidential information. 

A FOI request may be refused because of time already spent on it.

ICO issues handbook on handling personal information and managing privacy risks.

Legal team denied access to pupil database due to potential human rights violation.

Phishing emails are targeting the academic community.

British Standards Institution publish guide on data protection compliance.