The House of Lords approved the Digital Economy Bill yesterday [Tuesday] and the legislation now moves back to the House of Commons despite strong attacks from critics who accuse the government of rushing through ill-thought out legislation
The British Library has developed an interactive timeline tool to help students understand change, continuity and chronology when studying historical events.
Click-Use, the licence that for the last decade has authorised anyone to reuse government and Parliamentary information, is to be phased out by May.
Information commissioner Christopher Graham has urged political parties and candidates to respect people’s privacy rights in the run up to election campaigning
At Monday’s [March 1] parliamentary hearing, Phil Jones, head of Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia admitted he had sent “some very awful e-mails” and that those “papers weren’t very good”
Google’s plans to become world’s largest online library continues to be on hold as the US court once again delays the ruling on whether the internet giant can go on with digitising millions of books
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a consultation on a draft code of practice which sets out its proposed approach to using its new auditing powers due to come into effect in April 2010
The Government’s response rates to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests has deteriorated significantly since the Act was introduced five years ago. Furious info pros want stricter penalties to apply to public sector bodies failing to comply with the spirit of the Act
Medical journal The Lancet has fully retracted the discredited 1998 paper by Dr Andrew Wakefield from its published record
WestlawNext, Thomson Reuters’ just launched next generation system in legal research is set make professionals “significantly more efficient and confident”
The Information Commissioner’s Office has warned organisations that they may face tougher sanctions if they fail to report security breaches which subsequently come to light
Military personnel and Ministry of Defence (MoD) staff have leaked secret information at least 16 times on social networking websites and internet forums in the last 18 months, revealed a Freedom of Information request tabled by Lewis PR to the MoD today
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Since the closure of Ernest Marples website, how the Royal Mail should share its postcode data has been hotly debated. Should it be free or licensed with added value?
Google Books: Fair shares
A US court is due to give a ruling on the Google book settlement. Whatever its verdict, this is not going to be the final word on the subject
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