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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 have gone missing since...
[06 Feb 2008]
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 FoI regulations, the system is...
[11 Jan 2008]
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 can be applied.
[07 Jun 2007]
whitepaper Spatial reuse TDMA is a collision-free access scheme for ad hoc networks. The idea is to let spatially separated radio terminals reuse the same time slot when the resulting interferences are not too severe.
[09 Nov 2006]
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 prime ministerial buddy...
[18 Oct 2006]
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 requested information relating to the review...
[08 Sep 2006]
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 unusual losses.
[03 Aug 2006]
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]
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 statement said: "He accepted a very substantial...
[30 May 2006]
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) Act.silicon.com made a request...
[20 Apr 2006]
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 initial peak in request...
[07 Apr 2006]
whitepaper Following the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) and the updated Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations (EIR), the organisation is required to manage related queries within a twenty working day limit.
[15 Mar 2006]
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 claims by MPs, showing the amounts claimed by...
[24 Feb 2006]
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 is already heavily weighted in favour of the...
[13 Jan 2006]
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 said it has resolved 1,082 complaints out of...
[13 Jan 2006]
Case Study The first version of William the Conqueror's Doomsday Book was completed in 1086 - the first-ever survey of the English people and their way of life. It is the oldest record held at the National Archives (NA) today and one of millions of historic...
[14 Sep 2005]
News The NA has been tipped as something of a specialist with the FOI Act, and because of its long history of dealing with documents it developed a standard - TNA 2002 - that all government departments should demand from software vendors selling...
[14 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet How do I implement FOI in my organisation? What's this one about then? The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is designed to give people easy access to information from public sector organisations, such as central and local government, emergency...
[12 Sep 2005]
News The force had been working on an open source FOI project but Stirling said: "This system was never completed to our satisfaction and the project was terminated. Central Scotland Police is replacing parts of its open source infrastructure with...
[18 Aug 2005]
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 1,000 complaints since January about authorities failing to comply with the law.
[13 Jul 2005]
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