GDPR is coming – BREXIT or not
FOIMan points to a comment from a BREXIT campaigner which reinforces the message that a vote to leave the EU would have little effect on the adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation in …
FOI: Cutting the Cost
FOIMan discusses ways to cut the cost of Freedom of Information compliance. Last week I ran a workshop at PDP’s annual Freedom of Information Conference on managing the burden of FOI requests. This is something …
2015 UK Government FOI Statistics published
FOIMan highlights the latest annual statistics on government FOI performance. The government has published the latest quarterly and annual statistics on FOI performance by central government departments and other monitored bodies covering the whole of …
Whose Code is it anyway?
FOIMan tries to find out who is responsible for issuing Codes of Practice and discovers it’s not as simple as he thought. Last year the Government announced a number of changes to how FOI, data …
News Flash: new Information Commissioner announced
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced that their nomination to take over from Christopher Graham is Elizabeth Denham. Ms. Denham is currently the Information and Privacy Commissioner in British Columbia, Canada. This …
FOIA 2.0? FOI in the Isle of Man
FOIMan’s latest article for PDP’s Freedom of Information Journal takes a detailed look at the Isle of Man’s new FOI Act and considers whether there is anything that other jurisdictions can learn from it. As …