News Bulletin – week to 9 August 2013
FOI Man summarises the key developments in a busy week in the information law arena. You would think that this time of year would be a quiet one in the information law arena, but apparently …
FOI Man summarises the key developments in a busy week in the information law arena. You would think that this time of year would be a quiet one in the information law arena, but apparently …
FOI Man reviews a seminar hosted by the University of Winchester’s Centre for Information Rights and questions whether those of us who are information practitioners are helping or hindering attempts to protect the vulnerable. Back …
FOI Man highlights a new report from the Justice Select Committee calling for more help for the Information Commissioner. Say what you like about the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), but without it, the handling of …
FOI Man reports on the ICO’s new Code of Practice on anonymisation. FOI Officers tend to be caught between a rock and a hard place on a pretty much continual basis. If it isn’t navigating …
FOI Man asks whether a former ICO employee working for Google, or an MP using him to make political points, is the greater threat to a free society. Oh dear. I was planning a quiet …
FOI Man summarises the changes to the FOI Act that result from the passing of the Protection of Freedoms Act last week. And finds that not much has changed over the course of the last …