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Sussex hospital facing £375,000 fine after hard drives with thousands of patient data ended up on eBay

13 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

Following on from the Information Commissioner Office targeting the health sector for enforcement action for breaches of the Data Protection Act, the ICO has written to Brighton General Hospital proposing...

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Employee claims constructive dismissal after resigning following his uploading of CV onto LinkedIn

6 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

An employee of BG Group has claimed constructive dismissal after resigning following a row over his uploading of his CV onto LinkedIn, the business social networking website. The human resources professional...

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Atos to provide service that will enable comparison of data across GP practices in England – but privacy campaigners complain again

21 December 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Atos has been engaged to provide an £8m service through a computer system so as to extract data about patients from GPs’ surgeries and enable comparable extractions across the NHS. The Department of...

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RIM sued by North American Blackberry users after service downtime

3 November 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Research in Motion is being sued by US and Canada customers following the service problem that went on for three days in October. RIM’s CIO had apologised and offered one month of technical support for...

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Samsung seeks injunction to stop Apple iPhone 4S in four countries as Samsung is stopped from selling products for alleged infringement of Apple’s patents

31 October 2011 | Simon Weinberg

Samsung’s and Apple’s patent tit-for-tat spat continues apace, with Samsung seeking injunctions in Australia, France, Italy and Japan to stop Apple’s sales of the iPhone 4S. Samsung has recently...

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Lib Dems concern about cloud computing

28 September 2011 | Mark Weston

The Liberal Democrats have said that the use of cloud computing in public services needs to be investigated urgently to protect the public against the risks of storing data outside of the UK. In a paper...

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Government finally switches off life support machine of £11bn NHS programme for IT

23 September 2011 | Paul Gershlick

The Government has finally put the NHS Programme for IT out of its misery. It has terminated the project. The programme had been launched in 2002 with the aim of creating a centralised electronic care...

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Oracle still wins copyright infringement case against SAP but award reduced on appeal from being largest ever

16 September 2011 | Simon Weinberg

A US appeals court has upheld Oracle’s court victory against SAP for copyright infringement, but the damages award has been reduced. Last year, Oracle had been awarded damages of US$1.3bn after successfully...

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European Commission consults on EU-wide copyright licensing system

23 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The European Commission is consulting on its plans to create an EU-wide copyright licensing system in which copyright owners would make their works available across borders in exchange for payments through...

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European Commission publishes strategy for IP rights

9 June 2011 | Mark Weston

The European Commission has published its strategy for intellectual property rights. There are some common themes with the Hargreaves Digital Opportunity Report - in particular, ensuring that the economy...

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Latest news and views tagged IT

Sussex hospital facing £375,000 fine after hard drives with thousands of patient data ended up on eBay

Employee claims constructive dismissal after resigning following his uploading of CV onto LinkedIn

Atos to provide service that will enable comparison of data across GP practices in England – but privacy campaigners complain again

RIM sued by North American Blackberry users after service downtime

Samsung seeks injunction to stop Apple iPhone 4S in four countries as Samsung is stopped from selling products for alleged infringement of Apple’s patents

Lib Dems concern about cloud computing

Government finally switches off life support machine of £11bn NHS programme for IT

Oracle still wins copyright infringement case against SAP but award reduced on appeal from being largest ever

European Commission consults on EU-wide copyright licensing system

European Commission publishes strategy for IP rights

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