Archive Newsletters - 2009

January 2009

features on

• FOI and OFSTED Inspections
• Section 36, Names and the Qualified Person
• Information on Residential Homes
• ICO FOI Guidance
• Publication schemes for authorities merging or undergoing boundary changes
• Freedom of information training DVD from the ICO
• FOI and Schools
• Scottish Commissioner Newsletter
• FOI revealing food inspection reports.
• The annual JISC infoNet, Universities UK and GuildHE survey
• More Security Breaches
• NEW ICO Guidance
• New powers for the ICO
• New Data Sharing Powers
• The National Staff dismissal Register
• Government to access all emails?
• What is badware?

• Cabinet Minutes and the Section 53 Veto
• First House of Lords FOI Decision
• Section 43, Winning Bids and Scorecards
• New FOI Training DVD - 'Tick Tock'
• New and Updated ICO Guidance
• Caldicott Guardians Newsletters
• MPs expenses?
• Data Security Breaches
• Government Database Program Criticism
• Il Divo, Manchester Arena and fair processing
• Data Sharing dropped?
• Sarah’s law pilot scheme
• Declining an identifier
• Privacy Incident Lessons Learned
• RIPA & the Liberal party
• EIR & HIP

July 2009 features on

• FOI reforms
• MPs Expenses
• Publication schemes
• ICO enforcement
• Names of requestors
• PVP lists
• Protests against Big Brother cameras
• Notification fees
• Retention of DNA issues
• ID database will retain fingerprint images
• Consulting Agency gets to court
• 118800 runs into trouble
• ID cards scrapped?

October 2009 features on

• New Records Management Code
• New Information Commissioner
• Extension of FOI
• Is it FOI or EIR
• Tribunal view on slow ICO
• EIR and CON29 Searches
• Information Security Breaches
• Public EU Consultation
• Consultation on Identity Management
• Hacking into celebs' phones

EIR NEWSLETTER

October 2009

• ICO Personal search guidance
• Recent ICO decision