freedom of information act

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Open info for all?

Comment But surely this is all public information and should be available to all under the UK Freedom of Information Act! Following a request under the... [20 Jul 2009]

Preventing data loss - what's needed

Comment The UK's MPs may rue the day a disk listing details of their expenses was leaked to the Daily Telegraph from the House of Commons Fees Office earlier this year, but they were going to be made public at... [16 Jun 2009]

EC slams UK over BT trials uproar

News Asked for comment, the ICO gave ZDNet UK a statement in which it said: "The ICO regulates and enforces the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information... [14 Apr 2009]

Tony Mather

CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather... [11 Jun 2008]

Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service

Comment Information is another big part of Beaton's role at the Met and she has responsibility for managing the Met's work with the Information Commissioner, the Freedom... [02 Jun 2008]

Hillary Clinton talks tech

News I am an original co-sponsor of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, and I supported its reintroduction. The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act's section restricting... [03 Jan 2008]

Yahoo! fights China human rights suit

News spokeswoman said the company is a strong believer in human rights and it respects freedom of expression and privacy around the world. and its Hong Kong subsidiary with allegedly divulging... [28 Aug 2007]

CEOs blamed for "horrifying" data blunders

News The ICO received complaints under both the Data Protection Act (DPA) and Freedom of Information Act. The ICO received almost 6,000 complaints under the... [11 Jul 2007]

All Content and No Discovery

White Paper Is anyone aware that any citizen can ask for and is legally guaranteed access to information that passes through the email system through the Freedom of Information... [23 May 2007]

Are laptop bags to blame for rising thefts?

News These incident reports, obtained by a Freedom of Information Act enquiry, are indicative of the types of theft and robberies happening... [18 May 2007]

ID cards status to be made public

News But the chief secretary of the Treasury, Paul Boateng, said the information was exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and would... [04 May 2007]

UK tech visas increase by a third

News The figures were obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (Atsco), which is concerned at... [20 Feb 2007]

Police crack down on dodgy data

Case Study Cheat Sheets  The Computer Misuse Act  ID cards  Freedom of Information Act 2000 Graham Dawson, head of... [09 Nov 2006]

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,... [18 Oct 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 08.09.06

Round-Up If we promise you this week's Round-Up contains amazing stories of intrigue and scandal will you first sit through an interesting tale about a Freedom of Information... [08 Sep 2006]

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