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Brooks Newmark, the press, and “the other woman”
UPDATE: 30.09.14 Sunday Mirror editor Lloyd Embley is reported by the BBC and other media outlets to have apologised for the use of women’s photos (it transpires that two women’s images appropriated),...
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Are we all journalists?
The ICO has said that Global Witness can claim the data protection exemption for journalism, regarding their investigations in BSGR. This fascinating case continues to raise difficult and important...
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Is an FOI request from an investigative journalist ever vexatious?
Last week, in the Court of Appeal, the indefatigable, if rather hyperbolic, Mr Dransfield was trying to convince three judges that his request, made long ago, to Devon County Council, for information...
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FOI, data protection and rogue landlords
On 23rd July the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), in conjunction with the Guardian, published a database of landlords who have been convicted of offences under the Housing Act 2004....
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ICO discloses names of Operation Motorman journalists
In August this year the Upper Tribunal dismissed an appeal by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of a prior ruling that he must disclose the names of certain journalists who appeared on a list...
View ArticleBoris Johnson and GDPR
Might there have been a breach of data protection law in the recording, apparently by neighbours, of incidents at Boris Johnson’s home, and the passing of the recording to the media and the police?...
View ArticleReporter uses FOI to lift anonymity order
Here’s a remarkable example of good use of Freedom of Information (FOI) law. Tanya Fowles, a reporter covering courts in Northern Ireland, has successfully applied to lift a reporting restriction...
View ArticleOpen Letter to new ICO
I was delighted recently to be invited by OpenDemocracy to sign an open letter to John Edwards, new Information Commissioner, calling for more to be done to regulate FOI effectively. I’ve written many...
View ArticleDrones and freedom of expression
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides that everyone has the (qualified) right to freedom of expression, which includes the freedom to receive and impart information. And...
View ArticleFOI and government/ministerial WhatsApps
[reposted from LinkedIn] An important Information Tribunal (T) judgment on a FOIA request, by Times journalist George Greenwood, to DHSC for gov-related correspondence between Matt Hancock (MH) and...
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