As a follow up to the Spy Blog article
Where are all the Home Office press releases ? 177 spin doctors but only 5 press releases a week ?
another WhatDoTheyKnow.com FOIA request has been submitted to the Home Office:
As a follow up to the Spy Blog article
Where are all the Home Office press releases ? 177 spin doctors but only 5 press releases a week ?
another WhatDoTheyKnow.com FOIA request has been submitted to the Home Office:
If you have suggestions for other FOIA requests, bearing in mind the large list of exemptions, then email them to us, or use the comments facility on this blog, and we will see what we can do, without you yourself having to come under the direct scrutiny of "Sir Humphrey Appleby" or his minions.
email: blog @spy[dot]org[dot]uk
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WhatDoTheyKnow.com - FOIA request submission and publication website from MySociety.org
UK Public CCTV Surveillance Regulation Campaign
NO2ID Campaign - cross party opposition to the NuLabour Compulsory Biometric ID Card and National Identity Register centralised database.
Gary McKinnon is facing extradition to the USA under the controversial Extradition Act 2003, without any prima facie evidence or charges brought against him in a UK court. Try him here in the UK, under UK law.
FreeFarid.com - Kafkaesque extradition of Farid Hilali under the European Arrest Warrant to Spain
Parliament Protest blog - resistance to the Designated Area restricting peaceful demonstrations or lobbying in the vicinity of Parliament.
Data Retention is No Solution - Petition to the European Commission and European Parliament against their vague Data Retention plans.
Save Parliament - Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (and other issues)
The Big Opt Out Campaign - opt out of having your NHS Care Record medical records and personal details stored insecurely on a massive national centralised database.
Tor - the onion routing network - "Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data or learn what sites you visit, and even the onion routers themselves."
Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor - useful Guide published by Global Voices Advocacy with step by step software configuration screenshots (updated March 10th 2009).
Amnesty International's irrepressible.info campaign
BlogSafer - wiki with multilingual guides to anonymous blogging
NGO in a box - Security Edition privacy and security software tools
Home Office Watch blog, "a single repository of all the shambolic errors and mistakes made by the British Home Office compiled from Parliamentary Questions, news reports, and tip-offs by the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs team." - does this apply to the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government as well ?
Reporters Without Borders - Reporters Sans Frontières - campaign for journalists 'and bloggers' freedom in repressive countries and war zones.
Committee to Protect Bloggers - "devoted to the protection of bloggers worldwide with a focus on highlighting the plight of bloggers threatened and imprisoned by their government."
Icelanders are NOT terrorists ! - despite Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling's use of anti-terrorism legislation to seize the assets of Icelandic banks.
No CCTV - The Campaign Against CCTV
I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist !
Power 2010 cross party, political reform campaign
Cracking the Black Box - "aims to expose technology that is being used in inappropriate ways. We hope to bring together the insights of experts and whistleblowers to shine a light into the dark recesses of systems that are responsible for causing many of the privacy problems faced by millions of people."
Open Rights Group - Petition against the renewal of the Interception Modernisation Programme
Yes, Minister Series 1, Episode 1, "Open Government" First airtime BBC: 25 February 1980
"Bernard Woolley: "Well, yes, Sir...I mean, it [open government] is the Minister's policy after all."
Sir Arnold: "My dear boy, it is a contradiction in terms: you can be open or you can have government."
Campaign for the Freedom of Information
Office of the Information Commissioner,
who is meant to regulate the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Scottish Information Commissioner,
who similarly regulates the Freedom of Information Act (Scotland) 2002
Information Tribunal - deals with appeals against decisions by the Information Commissioners.
Freedom of Information pages - Department for Constitutional Affairs
Friends of the Earth FOIA Request Generator and links to contact details for Central Government Departments and their Publication Schemes
UK Government Information Asset Register - in theory, this should point you to the correct Government documents, but in practice...well see for yourself.
Access all Information is also logging some FOIA requests
foi.mysociety.org - prototype FOIA request submission, tracking and publication website
UK Freedom of Information Act Blog - started by Steve Wood, now handed over to Katherine Gundersen
Your Right To Know - Heather Brooke
Informaticopia - Rod Ward
Open Secrets - a blog about freedom of information by BBC journalist Martin Rosenbaum
Panopticon blog - by Timothy Pitt-Payne and Anya Proops. Timothy Pitt-Payne is probably the leading legal expert on the UK's Freedom of Information Act law, often appearing on behlaf of the Information Commissioner's Office at the Information Tribunal.
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