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Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News Currently no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of Information) request by... [04 Feb 2009]
Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m
News A recent Home Office response to another ID cards related FoI enquiry shows the department spent a total of £31.6m on external consultants' services for the ID cards project between the financial years 2003/04 and 2005/06. [22 Aug 2008]
NHS admits thousands of smartcards have gone walkies
News Of the 221 NHS bodies that replied to the FoI request, one in ten said they had no idea how many cards had been lost or stolen. More than 4,000 NHS smartcards used to access a range of electronic systems and applications... [06 Feb 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study Because the system is so precise, Liddell is also using it to comply with Freedom of Information (FoI) enquiries and data protection issues. If anyone at the college receives a message with an enquiry covered by... [11 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Gateway Reviews
Cheat Sheet In theory you can make a Freedom of Information (FOI) request on the status of projects and the OGC claims there is no blanket exemption on this. Each request is considered and qualified FOI exemptions... [07 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Don't de-fang the Freedom of Information Act
Comment This week news broke that the government likes the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act (as our friends over at Kablenet tell us). News also broke that the government, through Constitutional Affairs Secretary of State - and... [18 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.09.06
Round-Up We were responding to an FOI request and we didn't redact the document properly," said a spokesman, exercising his understatement muscles. In this instance an FOI enquiry into the National Audit Office... [08 Sep 2006]
Mobile phones leak from UK government
News A recent Freedom of Information (FoI) enquiry by silicon.com into lost devices within the UK government has revealed how many mobile phones have gone astray in a number of departments, as well as unearthing some more... [03 Aug 2006]
Whitehall fights to keep ID card cost report secret
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is appealing against an order by the UK's data protection watchdog to release a secret report on the costs, benefits and risks of introducing ID cards in the UK. [06 Jul 2006]
NHS IT director general Granger's salary revealed
News Granger's salary, bonuses and expenses have finally been released to silicon.com after a protracted wrangle with the Department of Health (DoH) over a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request. The FoI... [30 May 2006]
How much does NHS IT chief Granger earn?
News The Department of Health (DoH) is dragging its feet over releasing details of NHS IT chief Richard Granger's salary, bonuses and expenses despite a request made by silicon.com under the Freedom of Information (FoI)... [20 Apr 2006]
Decline in FoI requests after initial excitement
News Government bodies received 7,700 Freedom of Information (FoI) requests between September and December last year, the lowest quarterly total since the law came into effect. These figures suggest that there was a marked... [07 Apr 2006]
Reveal MPs' travel expenses, says info commissioner
News MPs' travel expenses must be released by the House of Commons under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, the information commissioner has ordered. FoI requests had been made for a breakdown of travel... [24 Feb 2006]
Leader: Data protection watchdog needs more bite
Leader Then we learn that the ICO has resolved less than half of the complaints made about public bodies failing to answer requests for information made under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. The FoI Act... [13 Jan 2006]
Half of FoI complaints unresolved
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has resolved less than half of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act complaints it received last year. Since the FoI Act came into effect last January, the ICO... [13 Jan 2006]
