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Data watchdog blasts secrecy over ID cards
News The man who will be an integral part of the UK's proposed ID card rollout - Information Commissioner Richard Thomas - has slammed the government's plans. Talking to MPs yesterday at a meeting of the home affairs committee, Thomas said he had... [09 Jun 2004]
PFI companies may have to be more revealing
News That was the warning made by Information Commissioner Richard Thomas as he briefed MPs in a special hearing of the constitutional affairs committee. That could include information previously regarded as confidential, according to Thomas. [12 May 2004]
Top lawyer clinches Information Commissioner role
News Richard Thomas, currently director of public policy at Clifford Chance, will be responsible for upholding the Data Protection Act and ensuring from government freedom of information. Previously, Thomas worked for eight years within the public... [25 Jul 2002]
Data thieves facing two years in prison
News Information Commissioner Richard Thomas had proposed tougher penalities and today said in a statement that "a custodial sentence will act as a deterrent". Now on summary conviction data thieves face getting up to six months in prison while for a... [07 Feb 2007]
Give us more power, says data protection watchdog
News But giving evidence before the Home Affairs Select Committee, information commissioner Richard Thomas called for stronger powers to allow his office to carry out inspections and audits. Thomas said it is essential that before new surveillance... [01 May 2007]
ID cards "an expensive and dangerous folly"
News Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has expressed his concerns over government plans in the recent past and today said in a statement that "the current proposals are far wider than necessary to implement a simple identity scheme". [30 Jul 2004]
ID thieves face porridge threat
News The government's change in tact follows a warning by the UK's data protection watchdog information commissioner Richard Thomas earlier this year, in the report What Price Privacy? The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) will first undertake... [25 Jul 2006]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment This year the e-Crime Congress, an event I helped organise, will hear from UK politicos such as Home Office minister Vernon Coaker, shadow home affairs minister James Brokenshire and information commissioner Richard Thomas. [07 Mar 2007]
Opinion: Why I fear joined-up government
Comment At the forthcoming e-Crime Congress in March, this is a subject which will be examined by Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson and information commissioner Richard Thomas, who has already warned the UK may be "sleepwalking into a... [18 Jan 2007]
Data tsar promises to break government 'culture of secrecy'
News Richard Thomas, 53, formerly the director of public policy at law firm Clifford Chance, took over from Elizabeth France in December 2002, and having got to grips with his new job today stressed the importance of striking this balance between... [07 Jan 2003]
Cheat Sheet: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Cheat Sheet These lists have been signed off by the Information Commissioner; right now that's Richard Thomas. The best thing to do is refer to the Department of Constitutional Affairs' website. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is designed to give people... [12 Sep 2005]
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