“Bruised by revelations of wrongdoing by British troops, the Ministry of Defence has agreed to be more transparent and provide more information about courts martial and other action taken against members of the armed forces, the Guardian has been told.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“References provided by schools about university applicants have been rendered worthless by the Data Protection Act, a crossbench peer has told the BBC.”
BBC News, 5th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Prince Charles is to challenge a judicial ruling that threatens to expose the environmental impact of the private estate that provides his £17m-a-year income.”
The Guardian, 28th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The 1.2m records released this week are an unprecedented exercise in open data, especially for a courts system long accused of operating a Victorian method of closed information.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Local authorities in the UK have collectively lost personal data on at least 1035 occasions in the past three years, a privacy group has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Freedom of Information act is a mistake, and is having a negative effect on governing, Britain’s top civil servant said. Sir Gus O’Donnell told the Commons public administration select committee that it had stymied full and frank discussion of options by ministers and others in government. The 2001 act gives members of the public and journalists the right to ask for publication of official documents.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There is no doubt that freedom of expression plays a starring role in the human rights fairy tale. While she is carried aloft on the soaring rhetoric of citizens’ rights from the newsrooms to protesters’ rallies, the right to information, her shy stepsister, is rarely allowed out. How can that be? Surely we can’t have the one without the other?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th November 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (‘EIR’) did not require the Department of Energy and Climate Change (‘DECC’) to disclose information concerning the government’s analysis of the potential cost to the UK of strengthened climate change commitments by the EU, the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber, Information Rights) has held.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th November 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Intelligence documents showing how British officials were involved in the secret rendition of UK residents to Guantánamo Bay and other jails – where they say they were abused and tortured – must be disclosed, an information tribunal was told on Thursday.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The 700-year-old ‘veil of secrecy’ covering the workings of the Prince of Wales’s Duchy of Cornwall estate will be partially lifted after a landmark legal ruling that could open up the Royal family to far greater public scrutiny.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The public can now request information from three new bodies under the Freedom of Information Act.”
Ministry of Justice, 1st November 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Organisations do not have to issue all the information stored in complaint files in order to comply with individuals’ personal data access requests, the UK’s data protection watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“University workers must release information from personal webmail accounts on request if it is related to public business, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Police did not have to disclose anonymised data about the number of teachers investigated and charged for sexual offences as the information could have been used to identify individuals, a Information Rights Tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“David Cameron and his most senior aides face being forced to open up their private email accounts to see if they contain details of sensitive government business hidden from the Civil Service. A meeting of permanent secretaries yesterday discussed ordering a ‘trawl’ of personal email accounts held by Mr Cameron, senior aides and government ministers to see if they contain messages which fall within the remit of the Freedom of Information Act, The Independent understands.”
The Independent, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Michael Gove and his closest advisers are under scrutiny after Government business was apparently conducted using personal email accounts.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In Colleen Smith v IC and Devon & Cornwall Constabulary (EA/2011/0006), the requester asked for information on the number of school teachers in specified towns who had been investigated, cautioned and charged under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 between January 2005 and November 2007. The Constabulary eventually relied on the personal data at section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act (‘FOIA’).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th September 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/
“Squatters are not criminals and could be good for society, a judge has ruled in ordering a London council to make public a list of empty homes in its area.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A request by tobacco giant Philip Morris International to the University of Stirling has reignited concern about the use of freedom of information laws. The data it was interested in was collected as part of a survey of teenagers and smoking carried out by the university’s Centre for Tobacco Control Research.”
The Guardian, 1st September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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