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Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.

How data security is like a car park. Sort of. Last Friday I parked in my usual car park. I entered it past the signs informing me of the terms for parking there, and the penalties for breaching them....

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Internal Affairs

Has an NHS Trust tried wrongly to prevent publication of information under FOI? Or are they just perhaps (naively) internally exploring the options? Brace yourselves. Hold on to your china. I have a...

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Tweets and Tw*ts, redux

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG. UPDATE: 13 December 2012 In a tweet to me of 5 December the ICO kindly clarified that there has been no change. The reference to twitter names is now contained in this...

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When is a working day not a working day?

If you made an FOI request over the Christmas period, be aware of a strange anomaly regarding time for compliance Everyone knows that the time for compliance by a public authority with a request made...

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Sony Make Believe?

The ICO has “fined” Sony £250k for its Playstation Network breach. My swiftly-grabbed breakfast coffee yesterday morning was interrupted by an emailed press release from the Information Commissioner’s...

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Smeaton v Equifax overturned

The Court of Appeal has overturned what had seemed an important, if controversial, judgment on the legal duties owed by Credit Reference Agencies to those about whom they hold records and issue...

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Human Rights and Wrongs

“The first major law to curtail the rights of Jewish German citizens was the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” of April 7, 1933, according to which Jewish and “politically...

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The Right to Unknown Information

It is important to note that there is no requirement in the FOIA that those intending to make requests for information have any prior knowledge of the information they are requesting. These words of...

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ICO Bares Teeth at Nuisance Callers

I know a retired chap whose daily life is blighted by nuisance marketing phone calls. Some are from charities he donates to, and I’ve told him he’s entitled to donate and still opt out of receiving...

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A Howitzer of an FOI Exemption

A recent decision by the Information Commissioner shows that the House of Commons is able, under the FOI Act, to apply a blanket provision preventing disclosure of information of potential public...

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NO THANK YOU I DON’T WANT TO REGISTER

The other day I was in town, and popped in to a shop to look at an interesting item. I was rather annoyed to be greeted by a shop assistant waving a large banner which obscured everything. He said he’d...

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Schools and Children’s Privacy

Parents, when confronted with the familiar complaint by a child that a parental decision ”isn’t fair”, are entitled to say “I don’t care – what I say goes”. Schools*, and their teachers, although...

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Information Rights and Wrongs Alternative Honours List

Martin Hoskins muses today on why – apart from those who’ve worked for the Information Commissioner’s Office – no data protection professionals have ever received royal honours. I can certainly think...

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CQC allegations and data protection

Data Protection laws have been said to be behind the decision not to name CQC officials alleged to have covered-up a damning internal report. Oh really? Well, yes, perhaps, I argue. News bulletins...

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Who’s to blame for the Ministerial Veto?

The people to blame for our not being able to see Prince Charles’ lobbying correspondence with the government are not the judges – it’s the people who passed the FOI Act. So, perhaps to no one’s great...

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Substantial distress or just a nuisance?

Can a large number of nuisance calls to a large number of people, none of whom inidividually suffers substantial distress, still equate to cumulative substantial distress, for the purposes of the PECR...

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The future of the ICO’s funding and functions

In February of this year the House of Commons Justice Committee took evidence from the Information Commissioner and his two deputies, and in March published a lengthy, sympathetic and wide-ranging...

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An Unnecessary FOI Appeal?

South Lanarkshire Council have lost what seems to me to have been a rather unnecessary, and surely rather costly, FOI case in the Supreme Court. That said, the judgment is important reading. It is...

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It’s still not fine

Last week I blogged about enforcement notices served on three Midlands police forces by the Information Commissioner (IC). I was surprised that the circumstances hadn’t merited stronger sanctions, in...

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An error of judgment

A very brief post, on something in a High Court judgment which may merely be a slip. On 6 June 2013 a renewed application to appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal was heard in the High Court. The...

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