A request that is hard to swallow? Government gets a whiff of their own ‘metadata medicine’ The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has held that requests for metadata are capable of being valid under the Freedom of Information 2000 (FOIA), in particular its section 8 dealing with the form of requests. The facts of the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Freedom of information
UK Freedom of Information rules to expand in scope?
Plans to extend the scope of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 in the next few years have been announced by the UK’s Ministry of Justice. Although the presentation of implementing legislation is unlikely to take place in this Parliamentary session, the announcement refers to the following measures for scheduling before the general election … Continue reading
The First Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) refuses to disclose the names of 4 police officers involved in a ‘car selling-scam’… and a few considerations about the right to be forgotten
Some of the most vocal criticisms of the right to be forgotten as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its famous case decided on 13 May 2014 come from Internet giants. The Wikimedia foundation and the Wikipedia founder himself are no exception. “This right to be forgotten is the idea … Continue reading