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Our very first. Comments on the Godfrey case now in cyber history. How Big Brother is affecting productivity and not much more.
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- Elected Members & Notification
- Freedom of Information Bill receives Royal Assent
- Council Tax update
- New Draft code for Consultation
- Surveillance and monitoring - Lawful Business Practice
- Council breaches Data Protection Act
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- CRB
- Records Management?
- Cautionary Tales
- George Bush writes a letter
- Catherine Zeta Jones
- Free e-gov newsletter
- The Social Security Fraud Bill
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- MP demands to see his file
- Manual Records in 8 weeks?
- Notification in 8 weeks?
- Disclosure of patient records
- Privacy and the man on the Clapham omnibus
- Adoption records and disclosure
- Standard clauses for data transfer
- Freedom of Information
- Bristol University and the security principle.
- Ireland’s first case of internet defamation
- Gay consent website
- Email monitoring
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- Information Commissioner to quit
- Police Data Protection Code of Practice
- Police inquiry into sex register is dropped
- New EU Data protection Directive
- European Union bans spam
- Social Services and Confidentiality
- Council tax records
- Freedom of Information in Scotland
- Data matching
- Section 61 (personal liability) bites
- Census website gets a million hits an hour
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- I WNT U, I NEED U, I CNT GET ENUFF OF U
- Haiku
- MPs and notification
- Big Brother awards
- Convicts re-united
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- Ashworth Security Hospital v MGN LTD (2002)
- RE C (Sexual abuse:disclosure) (2002)
- Sale of the electoral roll
- More weighty opinions on Council Tax data
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- Identity cards v Entitlement cards
- Council Tax Data
- Spam survey
- Information Commissioner Report 2001/2002
- Information Commissioner leaves
- Information Commissioner arrives
- Inspection by a Surveillance Commissioner
- Naomi Campbell is appealing
- Misleading Notification adverts
- Inland Revenue disclosures
- Councillors and Data Protection
- Commissioner's advice on Publication Schemes.
- Records Management
- Telecomms Ombudsman
- Crime & Disorder Information Exchange protocol
- Parliamentary Ombudsman & the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information
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- Peck V UK
- Name and Shame posters banned
- Use of NHS number
- LOCTA – Locating Council Tax absconders
- YOT Update – to be or not to be a legal entity
- AL-Jazeera website hit by hackers
- French letters and the fight against spam
- New Irish Information Commissioner
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- Connexions Concerns
- Test Requests under Freedom of Information Act
- Information Exchange – Council tax and Inland Revenue
- Members of the Information Tribunal
- A message from Bill Gates about Spam
- Data Sharing under the Crime & Disorder Act
- Final Flourish from Lord Chancellor’s Dept
- Irish Data Protection Law
- New Privacy Law? The Zeta Jones Decision
- The Irish FOI Act
- CCTV Case – Jones v University of Warwick
- Mary Bell and the Right of Anonymity
- Naming and Shaming. R v Chief Constable of Essex
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- The Land Registration Act 2002 confidentiality issues
- New HSE accident book
- Hutton enquiry website and documents
- One click for all preference services
- Using the electoral roll for mailshots
- Data sharing and IRT
- Identity thefty
- Hampshire Council v Graham Beer (2003)
- Viruses and Hoaxes
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- Data Protection 2004 AD
- Swedish Churchwardens and DP
- Reusing Council Tax data again
- Durant - Impact on personal privacy
- How much information in the world
- Removing personal data from Word Documents
- Leogate - a privacy story
- Smile you’re on camera
- NHS records
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- Act Now approved by Home Office
- Government plans more changes to RIPA
- Act Now wins NI Tender
- 3 Surveys of readiness
- FOI and Politicians
- Guidance notes on Exemptions from ICO
- Durant killed the video star
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- Powerpoint download
- Journalists and FOI(S)A
- Sebastian Coe loses privacy ruling
- Princess Caroline of Monaco wins privacy ruling
- Ministers & ombudswomen
- The Johnson V MDU case
- Bichard Report
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- Friends of the earth start making requests
- Access to Information Stories
- Freedom of Information (Scotland)
- Summary of Scottish FOI Conference 6th October 2004 Edinburgh
- DPA & Privacy stories
- IRT/IRS/ISA note
- Following on from Soham
- Universities, Alumni & DP
- Guidance on CCTV
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- Requests made to the CIA
- Section 36 – qualified person
- Extensions to the 20 day deadline
- Ofsted & FOI
- FOI, Contracts & Tendering
- Defra has published a list of exceptions
- Commissioner’s View on Identity cards
- Two views on access to deceased individual’s records
- IEG requires RM
- RIPA Spoc Accreditation Deadline 31st March 2005
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- Food Inspections Data
- FOI in the Papers
- FOI in the Local Papers
- FOI and Schools
- FOI and the Police
- FOI and Academic Research
- FOI and Commercial Information
- Unusual FOI request
- IDOX
- FOI posters
- Special Constable Prosecuted
- Telephone scams
- Record fine for not notifying
- Court helps Ryanair
- Scary Movie
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- ICO first Decision notices
- FOI scams start
- Hold the Front Page
- First Decision of SIC
- Douglas & Zeta Jones again
- New DPA guidance
- Durant revisited
- The difference between a cannibal and a hacker
- Student Hackers
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- Information Rights qualification
- FOI Stats on Governments response
- e-Trust Charter
- DCA publishes Information Rights Journal
- The Next Big Thing
- Ten Tips to be FOI compliant
- The (Consequential Modifications) Order
- Council Tax & Data Sharing
- No Tags please we’re British!
- Buying Video recorders feedback
- Commissioner’s Ten Top Tips for students regarding DP
- Solicitors in breach of Data Protection Act
- Big Brother Awards
- Ring tone issues
- New guidance on rights to exam info
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- First Information Tribunal Decisions
- IDEA Local authority Survey Report
- Information Commissioner Backlog
- Identities of requestors in Disclosure logs
- FOISA blog
- House of Lords Dismisses Durant
- Use of NINO
- My right to be private
- Spammer convicted
- Mystery conference
- Mailinator – a novel slant on email and
- privacy policies
- Disclaimers on emails
- Surveillance Society
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- Reimbursement of costs incurred under FOI
- DCA reports on FOI’s first 18 months
- Freedom of Information and schools.
- Anonymous requestors & Checking Identity
- Commissioner gets tough (1)
- Commissioner gets tough (2) ….. And this time it’s personal
- Commissioner gets tough (3) ….. And this time it’s cross-legislative
- Campaign for FOI in Scotland
- Scottish Commissioner interview
- Data Protection hits the satirical press
- The Shelagh Gaskell Scholarship
- Connexions hits the dust
- DVLA discloses your details for a fee?
- The Fake Sheikh and Anonymity
- Child Database invades privacy
- New RIPA ICC Inspections
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- FOI & Empty homes
- FOI and Privacy – Recent ICO Decisions
- New FOI Podcast Service
- They ought to know better
- Paedophiles
- Data Sharing Proposals
- DPA and Schools
- Channel 4 documentary last thursday
- New ICO Guidance :RFID Tags
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- Speed cameras again
- Been asked for a list of all Hackney & Private Hire vehicles?
- FOISA and the Enterprise Act
- European Data Protection Day is 28th January 2007.
- Release of another vehicle’s keeper details
- Bugs in bins
- National Identity Fraud prevention week.
- Profiling the newborn
- Audit Commission 'phishes' your bank details
- Liverpool Council prosecuted under DPA
- The next generation of RFID tags
- An inspector calls
- Two places to look up law
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- International right to know day 2006 and the 240th birthday of FOI
- DWP and the Section 29 exemption
- Nationwide fine for losing customer data and other laptop stories.
- New Trial of Megan’s Law
- Woman gets 75,000 bank statements
- Scammers jailed
- OSC Inspections
- Fingerprinting children in schools
- Stolen laptop holds 11,000 children on it
- Article 8 tested in frozen embryo case.
- Johnson v MDU in the court of appeal April 10th 2007
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- FOI & Early Retirement and Departures of Senior Officers
- Vexatious or Repeated Requests
- Trading Standards and Enterprise Act 2002
- First Tribunal decision to go to the High Court?
- Audit Commission loses data twice
- GM subsidiary paid conman for "blagged" private data, court told
- Junior doctors' sensitive data published on website
- Information Commissioner audits HBOS
- Leeds crown Court jails DP Scammers
- Orange & Littlewoods in breach of Act.
- Camera Watch
- RIPA Review
- Things to think about before putting pupil info on the web?
- Guidance on PECR 2003
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- Latest ICO and Tribunal Decisions
- Staff Names and Contact Details
- FOI and Schools
- First Decision involving GPs
- Deceased Persons’ Records
- FOI Journal
- SIC making waves
- Definition of Personal Data
- Information Sharing
- Register article
- Monster cock up
- Wish upon a Tsar
- Definition of Personal Data
- Face book & Privacy
- Cert Ed (from a bulletin Board)
- The summer 2007 edition of RecordKeeping
- Latest news on RIPA/RIP Review
- OSC Inspections
- Accessing Communications Data – Latest News
- Email and Internet Monitoring Workshop.
- Cybercrime article
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- Freedom of Information - Three Years On
- New FOI Bodies
- Latest Commissioner and Tribunal Decisions
- Access to deceased persons records.
- Tribunal Decision on Vexatious Requests
- First Records Management Practice Recommendation
- Child Benefit Data Fiasco and Jeremy Clarkson getting it wrong
- Police Told To Delete Old Record
- Department of Health Found In Breach of Data Protection
- Multi Agency Information Sharing
- ICO calls for privacy impact assessments to limit our electronic footprint
- Records Management toolkit for Schools
- OSC Inspections
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- Information Tribunal backs Durant
- Release of ASBO Information
- Celebrity Dipping
- Data sharing
- Subject Access Made Easy as?
- Security and ID Theft
- Biometric control on smokers?
- Have you googled your school recently?
- The Public Law Outline
- Use of child data in schools
- Pupil privacy hits the headlines
- Courses for Schools
- Auditing compliance with DP & FOI in schools
