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View online Hi, here is your weekly round-up of Out-Law News highlights from international law firm Pinsent Masons.  As always, there are plenty  of other stories from this week.  You can also access our archive of weekly emails.     This week's highlights from Out-Law News TMT & Sourcing and Intellectual Property  Government sets criteria for new cyber security organisational standard The Cabinet Office has outlined the criteria that a new organisational standard for private sector cyber security should meet. 02/05/2013 Stripping of 'metadata' from digital files will not automatically mean creative works become 'orphans', says IPO The absence of 'metadata' from digital files will not automatically mean that creative material would be 'orphan works', the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said. 02/05/2013 Interoperable police systems could be unlawfully accessed, warns EU privacy body Linking police systems together could pose data protection compliance problems for law enforcement bodies, an EU privacy watchdog has said. 01/05/2013 Outsourcing providers face processor binding corporate rules 'trade off', says expert Corporate groups that provide personal data processing services to other firms in the EU must decide whether they are willing to expose one group member to greater liability for those activities by putting in place 'binding corporate rules' (BCRs) that can otherwise benefit them, an expert has said. 01/05/2013 White space technology expected to be in use next year as regulator bids to tackle data demand surge Telecoms firms will be making use of 'white space' for sending data across their networks before the end of next year if an autumn pilot of the technology is successful, Ofcom has said. 29/04/2013 Caldicott review: unlawful personal data processing and sharing should be reported as 'data breach' Health and social care bodies should be required to publish details of cases where they have processed or shared patients' personal data without having a legal basis to do so, Dame Fiona Caldicott has recommended. 29/04/2013 Pensions Administrators caught between two regulators in dealing with pensions liberation, pensions experts claim Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) should do more to ensure that pension schemes that are registered with them are legitimate if it is serious about clamping down on pensions liberation, an expert has said. 02/05/2013 Tax Supreme Court: participants in complex arrangements must have borne burdens and received goods or services for their business to recover VAT Companies involved in 'chains' of transactions must be able to show that they have borne burdens and received products or services for use in their business before they will be judged to have received supplies and thus are entitled to recover VAT, the UK's highest court has ruled. 02/05/2013 Property Growth and Infrastructure Act contains some welcome changes to village green regime, says expert A new law will make it harder for residents to use town and village green (TVG) laws to oppose the development of land, an expert has said. 01/05/2013 Share plans Simplified share buy back rules to boost employee ownership announced The Government is to simplify "over-burdensome" share buy-back rules, which it hopes will encourage more companies to operate direct employee ownership schemes. 01/05/2013 Energy Working Party finds fault with focus of proposed smart meter data protection impact assessment template A document designed to help companies assess how their use of data processed by smart metering systems will affect user privacy does not "provide a practical tool" for doing so as claimed, an EU watchdog has said. 30/04/2013 Infrastructure Public Accounts Committee queries "credibility" of UK's infrastructure policy The Government's plans to encourage economic growth through investment in infrastructure are unconvincing, and will lead to higher costs for consumers and taxpayers, a public spending watchdog has warned. 30/04/2013  About this email This is a weekly email for subscribers of Out-Law.com, a website with more than 10,000 pages of legal news and guidance. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com .   Please forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register here. Copyright © 2013 Pinsent Masons LLP, All rights reserved.  You are receiving this email because you are a contact of Out-Law.com or Pinsent Masons LLP and your details are held in their clients and contacts database  Our mailing address is:  Pinsent Masons LLP 30 Crown Place London, UK EC2A 4ES United Kingdom