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Old November 18th 15, 10:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Robin[_4_] Robin[_4_] is offline
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Default Access to Freedom of Information is under threat

Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:
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Proposed changes, currently under discussion by a cross-party
government commission, could make it much harder for to access
information.

You have until 20 November if you'd like to voice your opposition to
these restraints.

https://www.mysociety.org/2015/11/10...es-what-to-do/


I suppose it is too much to hope that people might first read the "call
for evidence" which that site does not even mention before signing a
petition to pre-emptively argue we live in the best possible of all
worlds and can afford to meet all the FoIA requests possible under a
system invented when the economy was booming and that nice Mr Brown had
abolished busts.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consul...l-for-evidence

As regards RealTime Trains, AIUI that rests not on FoI but on "open
data" which the current government is continuing to push as a "good
thing".

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