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Interactive timeline curries favour

The British Library has developed an interactive timeline tool to help students understand change, continuity and chronology when studying historical events.

Crown Copyright switches to Creative Commons

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.

Political parties must stick to privacy rules or face action, IC warns

Information commissioner Christopher Graham has urged political parties and candidates to respect people’s privacy rights in the run up to election campaigning

Climate data could not be released says professor

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 Books settlement remains undecided

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

ICO launches consultation on auditing notices

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

Government’s refusal of FOI requests at its peak

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

Wakefield’s paper on MMR finally retracted

Medical journal The Lancet has fully retracted the discredited 1998 paper by Dr Andrew Wakefield from its published record

Thomson Reuters launches next-gen legal system

WestlawNext, Thomson Reuters’ just launched next generation system in legal research is set make professionals “significantly more efficient and confident”

Report data breaches or risk tougher sanctions, warns ICO

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
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