Freedom of Information Act
IT budget squeeze stifling innovation in UK plc
News Panellist Patrick Cooper, head of applications and data services at the Department of Trade and Industry, admitted to some IT headaches associated with regulatory compliance but said laws such as the... [13 Jan 2006]
Spam appeal gets Supreme Court knock-back
News In February 2003, White Buffalo legally obtained a list of all of the university's "non-confidential, non-exempt" email addresses by filing a Freedom of... [11 Jan 2006]
London borough frees up access to its info
Case Study The Royal Borough of Kingston has increased the amount of information it is making available to the public as part of its work to comply with Freedom... [04 Jan 2006]
UK firms importing thousands of cheap techies from India
News The Association of Technology Staffing Companies (ATSCo) said the figures, which it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from Home Office body... [21 Nov 2005]
Nazi gold to UFOs - National Archives frees information
Case Study The Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force on 1 January this year. You can read MI5 records or information on the Battle of... [14 Sep 2005]
UFOs and meatballs - the effect of FOI on public sector
News Since the Freedom of Information Act came into effect, government agencies have been obliged - with some exceptions - to supply records or answer questions within 20... [14 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Cheat Sheet The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is designed to give people easy access to information from public sector organisations, such as central and local... [12 Sep 2005]
Police IT boss: Why we swapped Linux for Microsoft
News Microsoft said it will also work with the force on projects including an electronic document management system for better response to requests under the Freedom of Information... [18 Aug 2005]
Leader: UK soft on spam
Leader The ICO seems proud that it has been "successful in enforcing regulations" against 13 fax marketers, a fact silicon.com discovered through a Freedom of Information Act... [11 Aug 2005]
UK stops 13 fax marketers - but no spammers
News Putting this into context with other complaints we receive under the same and previous legislation, we receive far more complaints about direct marketing faxes and have been successful in taking enforcement action in 13 cases... [11 Aug 2005]
Texas singles spammer was wrong, court rules
News White Buffalo, an Austin, Texas, start-up that boasts of making "a ton of moolah" by promoting relationship-based websites, began its bulk email campaign in February 2003 by filing a... [04 Aug 2005]
Watchdog gets more than 1,000 FoI complaints
News The UK's data protection watchdog claims public bodies are adhering to the spirit of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, despite receiving more than... [13 Jul 2005]
UK spam scandal update: Deeper and messier than feared
News But now the DTI has revealed it provided the wrong information to silicon.com in response to a Freedom of Information Act enquiry, and it also appears... [06 Jul 2005]
One in five FoI requests turned down
News Central government bodies refused nearly one in five Freedom of Information (FoI) Act requests received in the first three months the legislation was in force. Under the... [27 Jun 2005]
Software helps agency hit FOI target
Case Study The London Development Agency (LDA) is using content management software to help it comply with the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act - and improve its knowledge... [20 Jun 2005]
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