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Private companies to be subject to FoI law
News The government is to extend the Freedom of Information Act, which allows citizens to request information on public-sector activity, to cover private-sector companies on government contracts. Justice Minister Michael Wills told the audience at a...
[May 14, 2009, 13:18]
Info site unpicks Information Act
News The UK Department for Constitutional Affairs has launched a website to help public authorities prepare for the Freedom of Information Act. This website will provide a valuable resource for everyone working hard to prepare for the day that the...
[July 2, 2004, 11:35]
Data watchdog probes government email bonfire
News The government watchdog said on Wednesday it would look 'unfavourably' on the Cabinet Office if it was deleting emails because of the Freedom of Information Act. And if it is happening because of the Freedom of Information Act, it would be looked...
[December 22, 2004, 11:30]
Linux 'putting more bobbies on the beat'
News A Scottish police force is extending its commitment to open-source software by developing a Linux-based system for ensuring it complies with the impending Freedom of Information Act. The system will computerise various manual processes and allow...
[November 5, 2004, 16:13]
FBI releases first Carnivore data
News The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) filed suit in June under the Freedom of Information Act seeking the release of the Carnivore source code, other technical details and legal arguments addressing the potential privacy implications of...
[October 4, 2000, 8:53]
Cypherpunks publish proof of Tempest
News Cypherpunks claims to have obtained information concerning Tempest from the US National Security Agency (NSA) through the freedom of information act and have published the information online . This page also contains correspondences between...
[October 26, 1999, 15:11]
US hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
News The EFF is using the Freedom of Information Act to try and find out how EU passenger data transferred to the US is retained, secured, used, disclosed to other entities, and combined with other information.
[November 23, 2006, 16:26]
A Year Ago: Cypherpunks publish proof of Tempest
News Cypherpunks claims to have obtained information concerning Tempest from the US National Security Agency (NSA) through the Freedom of Information Act and have published the information online . This page also contains correspondences between...
[October 26, 2000, 7:04]
SuperGlue helps data stay legal
News James Mullock, a partner at UK-based law firm Osborne Clarke, said that although SuperGlue would initially appeal to companies with operations in the US -- which need to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation -- there are also laws in the UK...
[September 10, 2003, 15:00]
Internet free speech threatened by data protection laws
News Supporters of Internet freedom, however, believe this may have serious implications for Internet discussion forums in Britain. Anonymity favours free speech and the Internet provides a forum for informed discussion," says Yaman Akdenis, director of...
[June 13, 2000, 17:05]
CIA funds chatroom surveillance
News EPIC director Marc Rotenberg, whose nonprofit group obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act, said the CIA's clandestine involvement was worrisome. Their proposal, also disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act, received...
[November 25, 2004, 7:35]
Privacy tsar: Data protection should be 'way of life'
News He also wants to help organisations achieve compliance with the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act, and foster an environment where freedom of information and data protection are a "natural way of life".
[January 8, 2003, 9:52]
MoJ issues digital-preservation code of practice
News Wills said the government will also undertake a consultation on extending the Freedom of Information Act to cover academy schools, the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) and the Association of...
[July 20, 2009, 9:39]
Information Commissioner gets a new COO
News He has joined as the ICO is expanding in anticipation of the full implementation of the Freedom of Information Act on 1 January, 2005. Richard Thomas said: "This appointment further strengthens my office's commitment to provide proficient data...
[October 29, 2004, 14:54]
Civil Service denies email foul play
News The Civil Service department insisted the move was part of an ongoing management policy to avoid wasting taxpayers' money and not a way of ducking the Freedom of Information Act (FoI). The Cabinet Office denied on Monday that millions of emails are...
[December 20, 2004, 12:30]
Government tries to keep ID card costs secret
News The ICO considered the complaint under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act and, after reviewing a copy of the report, information commissioner Richard Thomas ruled that the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public...
[July 6, 2006, 16:35]
FoI to extend to private companies, minister says
Blog Minister of Justice Michael Wills has told ZDNet UK that the UK's Freedom of Information Act is to be extended. Currently requests under the act can only be made to public bodies, but Wills said that the government had been considering modifying it...
[May 13, 2009, 17:07]
Spam law compromised by direct marketers
News An enquiry by ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed that the UK government took advice on whether businesses want to receive spam from many of the very companies with a vested interest in sending...
[June 2, 2005, 14:10]
MP slams Cabinet Office's email destruction
News MP Derek Wyatt, who is currently leading a parliamentary charge to ban spam, said on Tuesday he would be disappointed if the government had resorted to clearing inboxes as a way of avoiding embarrassment from the Freedom of Information Act (FoI).
[December 21, 2004, 15:55]
FoI
Talkback When I first heard what Blair was going to create in the Freedom of Information Act, I thought my friend was kidding me on. Bravo no2id :-) Then I read it and thought, "Blair really hasn't thought this one through has he?
[February 23, 2009, 15:11]
