Freedom of Information: pressure on for implementation of FoI Act
As we move closer to the moment when the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is brought fully into force on 1 January 2005, the Department for Constitutional Affairs has released an implementation roadmap...
View ArticleData Protection/Marketing: EU guidance on digital marketing
The EU advisory working party on data protection and privacy issues in Europe, made up of the national Data Protection Commissioners of the member states, has published an opinion on the proper...
View ArticleFreedom of Information website
The DCA has launched what it bills as a website to assist the public authorities preparing for the Freedom of Information Act. In fact the URL currently points to the FOI pages on the DCA site. The Act...
View ArticleFreedom of information access kicks off
With full access rights under the Freedom of Information Act now in force, there is a plethora of information about the new regime. The Department for Constitutional Affairs is responsible for the...
View ArticleInformation released under the FOIA
Schedules of information released in response to FOIA requests are beginning to appear on government websites. For example: DCA DTI MOD National Archives
View ArticleFree access to the laws that bind us?
Heather Brooke who blogs on FoI issues on Your Right to Know writes today in Technology Guardian about the Statute Law Databaseas part of its Free Our Data campaign under the headline “Access denied to...
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The web at 25 and a digital bill of rights
Much has been made about the fact that the web is 25 years old this month. Certainly, it was 25 years ago that Tim Berners Lee, working at CERN, “invented” the web. But the much more significant date...
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Around and about the legal web July 2020
Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust The House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies has produced an important Report which focuses on a crisis “with roots that...
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