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Selected articles from three back-issues of the Information Value newsletter, Freedom & Privacy, are available free for viewing or downloading in PDF format.
Issue One — August 2003
- — BT Conference
BT hosted an Information Management conference in June at three locations,London, Leeds and Bristol. Their aim being to raise awareness of the impendingdead line for compliance with the Freedom of Information Act... read more
- — NHS Survey
Freedom & Privacy set out to find how prepared the NHS really is by conducting a survey of the Strategic Health Authorities in the UK... read more
- — Epictetus 1
We regularly get asked to help test the readiness of public authorities for FoI,but last week one of our team had a chance to run his own live test of FoI... read more
- — Implimentation of the Freedom of Information Act
On the 30th November 2000 the Freedom of Information Act 2000 was passed by Parliament. The Act gives any person a general right of access to information held by public authorities 70,000 of them when it comes into effect... read more
Issue Two — October 2003
- — Who's Who in FoI
A guide to the key figures in the field of FoI ... read more
- — Debt Management Office
Conversations with Peter Benfell, FoI officer for the DMO ... read more
- — Epictetus 2
... consider this exchange of letters with a large UK bank: “Dear Sir, Please may I have a new card for your cash machines. My existing card is beginning to split at the edge. Yours sincerely, Epictetus.” “Dear Mr Epictetus, Thank you for your request for a cashpoint card. I enclose an application for which must be completed because you do not already have a card.” read more
- — How Healthy are You?
How are you preparing to meet the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and related legislation? read more
- — Surveying the Police Forces of England
As Police Forces were required to submit draft publication schemes to the Department for Constitutional Affairs by the 30th June this year we were keen to see how willing they would be to share information before the Act was implemented and it was decided to ask deliberately provocative questions ... read more
Issue Three — January 2004
- — The Pindar Test For
Disaster Recovery
One of the benefits that professional information management is the ability to recover viably from a disaster. After a disaster strikes the organization will be able to continue to function if it still has its key information assets and people who know how to use them. If the information assets are not available then the organization will fail just as surely as it would if the people were not there... read more
- — A bright future for
records management...
Conversations with Steven Jones, of the National Archives ... read more
- — Surveying our councils
Hot on the heals of our first two surveys (of the Strategic Health Authorities in the UK and Police Forces of England), Freedom and Privacy embarked on our most ambitious survey yet - the Unitary Authorities, Local Government Councils and the London Boroughs – totalling a massive 196 enquiries! read more
- — Court of Appeal sets out
guidance on subject
access
In a landmark decision which appears to be aimed at decreasing the administrative burden on businesses and public sector organisations across the UK (issued 8th December 2003) the Court of Appeal has set out important guidance for data controllers responding to subject access requests made by data subjects under Section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act"). read more
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