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16 Apr 2013
The former City regulator, the Financial Services Authority, was right not to disclose information it held about a company it had investigated based on freedom of information (FOI) legislation carve outs, the Information Commissioner has ruled.
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08 Feb 2013
More than half (53%) of company employees do not believe businesses suffer any harm if they take data belonging to a company when they leave it, according to a new survey.
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18 Jan 2013
Many businesses that permitted the 'rogue' use of cloud computing by internal departments or employees also lost confidential information last year, according to a new report by an information and systems security provider.
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27 Nov 2012
Public sector bodies cannot guarantee the confidentiality of bid information in the aftermath of an Information Rights Tribunal ruling, an expert has said.
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21 Nov 2012
The European Commission has commissioned a study on confidential information and trade secrets in a bid to determine whether mechanisms for companies to achieve redress for "economic harm" they have suffered from misuse of the information need to be improved....
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12 Nov 2012
The High Court will determine whether a Dutch company, its managing director and two employees are liable for infringements of database rights and copyright as well as a breach of confidence after rejecting claims that the case should be heard in the...
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08 Nov 2012
Businesses do not have a general claim of ownership over the content in staff emails, a High Court judge has said.
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24 Oct 2012
A former Sky employee who took Sky customers' information from its databases and passed it on for use by others was guilty of misusing the company's confidential information and infringing the firms' database rights, the High Court has ruled.
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19 Oct 2012
Many businesses lack sufficient controls to prevent staff breaching client and company confidentiality through postings they make online, a cyber security expert has said.
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01 Aug 2012
Businesses that are hired to do work for the Government and other public bodies are using "commercial confidentiality clauses" in contracts to inappropriately justify the non-disclosure of the cost of the contract and other public information, a Parliamentary...
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