Access to Freedom of Information is under threat
 

Quote:

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/

Access to Freedom of Information is under threat
 

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:45:41 +0100, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

Quote:

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/

Just in London or does it affect other parts of the UK also?

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In message , at 13:56:05 on
Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Scott remarked:
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/

Just in London or does it affect other parts of the UK also?

It'll be the whole country, but London gives the impression of having a
wider range of secretive public bodies - with a capability to affect
people's daily lives - than most of the rest of the country.

If these bodies have more power (the Mayoral office for example, quite
independent from any particular incumbent) then perhaps they should also
be more transparent - rather than less.
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Roland Perry

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In article ,
(Scott) wrote:

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:45:41 +0100, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

Quote:

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...-information-i
s-under-threat-heres-what-to-do/

Just in London or does it affect other parts of the UK also?

Whole UK.

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Colin Rosenstiel

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On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:45:41 +0100
Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:
Quote:

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...formation-is-u
der-threat-heres-what-to-do/

The picture of graffiti gave it that whining right-on student activist look so
I couldn't be bothered to read any further. A rule of thumb I use is that if
students are behind a campaign they've almost certainly got it arse about face.

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Spud

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On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:31:25 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

The picture of graffiti gave it that whining right-on student activist look so
I couldn't be bothered to read any further. A rule of thumb I use is that if
students are behind a campaign they've almost certainly got it arse about face.

Is freedom of information so unimportant to you? What if, for example,
through inaction, we find that sites like realtime trains are unable
to operate in future? Unlikely, I hope, but perhaps not impossible.

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John Ray

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What did we do before the FOI Act?

Access to Freedom of Information is under threat
 

John Ray wrote:
Is freedom of information so unimportant to you? What if, for example,
through inaction, we find that sites like realtime trains are unable
to operate in future? Unlikely, I hope, but perhaps not impossible.

That's Open Data, which is different from FOI. Open Data is about
authorities publishing datasets that they choose to release. FOI is about
the public's to ask (potentially awkward) questions.

Theo

Access to Freedom of Information is under threat
 

Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:
Quote:

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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Robin
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:02:44 +0000
John Ray wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:31:25 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

The picture of graffiti gave it that whining right-on student activist look
so
I couldn't be bothered to read any further. A rule of thumb I use is that if
students are behind a campaign they've almost certainly got it arse about
face.

Is freedom of information so unimportant to you? What if, for example,

No. What is important to me is getting the facts straight. And kids generally
don't. They're usually all hot air and little insight.

through inaction, we find that sites like realtime trains are unable
to operate in future? Unlikely, I hope, but perhaps not impossible.

Never even heard of that site. But since governments seem quite happy for
flightradar24 to exist then I doubt there'll be an issue with trains even
if rules are tightened.

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Spud