Information Commissioner

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• Tax statements of a corporate group may be given under RTI

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 158
  It has been made clear that such information cannot be sought directly from the private business groups but from a government department which holds it. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for full article ]]
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• Information commissioners need to carry a big stick-and use it

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 124
  With Federal and NSW information commissioners to be appointed next year (well, hopefully) to join those operating for years in Queensland and Western Australia, and the Tasmanian Ombudsman to have new responsibilities, this first broad ranging interview by Christopher Graham after six months as Information ...
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• Queens private papers over crumbling palaces to be published

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Confidential letters between Buckingham Palace and ministers over the crumbling state of the Queens estate may be disclosed to the public for the first time.
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• New chief information commissioner this week

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) is expected to be announced this week and will be from within the Central Information Commission, said highly placed sources.“The announcement will be this week once the current parliament session ends,” a top government official told IANS.The ...
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• Brit daily wins right to disclose Queen’s finances

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Dec. 21 (ANI): Secret correspondence between the Government and Buckingham Palace concerning the growing public cost of the Royal Family is to be released to The Independent after three years of campaigning.In a far-reaching ruling, the Government must disclose more than 100 letters and memos written by ...
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• ‘Systemic corruption’ in MCD as files go missing: CIC

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  By Mayank AggarwalNew Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Thousands of files relating to street-side hawkers in Delhi go missing due to “fundamental systemic corruption” in the civic body, an exasperated Central Information Commission (CIC) has noted, adding this needs to be looked at if Delhi “is to live by any set of ...
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• Our submission to the Information Commissioner

  
  Staffordshire — Authority: 106
  1    Introduction The DCSF Information Rights Manager, Mr Andrew Partridge, wrote to Mrs Stafford about her Freedom of Information requests and other communications with the Department on the 13 th November 2009; hereafter called the Partridge letter (Partridge, 2009). This supporting paper to the ...
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• Information Commissioner pledges fierce approach to slowcoach public officials

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Christopher Graham, Britains new Information Commissioner, has pledged to prosecute public officials who fail to comply with openness laws in his first newspaper interview.
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• Google, Switzerland agree on Street Views

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 525
  Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Google and the Swiss data protection boss, Hanspeter Thuer, Thursday 17 December reached a temporary agreement on Google Street View while a Swiss government lawsuit is pending against the company.  Google will refrain from activating Google Street View, under the terms of the ...
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• Relatively happy but busy Information Commissioner in the West

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 124
  Western Australian Information Commissioner Sven Bluemmel in the Annual Report 2008-2009 details brisk Freedom of Information business, with 180 applications to his office for external review in the year to June 2009 up from 103 in the previous year. The average time for resolving complaints, just under 79 ...
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• What ever happened to...

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 124
  In case you were wondering, as the country goes into wind down to the festive season and before summer torpor takes complete hold : The NSW Information Commissioner Applications for the advertised job to lead NSW into a new era, with a new open government act closed on 28 September. Not a drum roll ...
  2 weeks ago

• Punjab IAS officers to encourage voluntary assets’ disclosure

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Chandigarh, Dec 15 (IANS) Assets of some of the ‘rich’ bureaucrats in the country could soon be in the public domain with the IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officers’ association in Punjab Tuesday saying that it will encourage officers to voluntarily disclose their property and assets.The move follows a ...
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• Is this the BBC’s Climategate?

  
  Harmless Sky — Authority: 115
  It’s now two and a half years since I first asked the BBC for the names of the  ‘best scientific experts’ who attended their Climate Change - the Challenge to Broadcasting seminar at Television Centre in January 2006. In the meantime, readers of this blog may have formed some fairly forthright opinions about ...
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• Information tribunal rejects appeal by University of Central Lancashire. Freedom of Information wins!

  
  DC's Improbable Science — Authority: 106
  A momentous decision was promulgated (as lawyers say) by the Information Tribunal on December 8th 2009.  It marks a step forward in Freedom of Information about how universities spend your money. It has taken 3.5 years to get to this point. Perhaps now there will be an end to the attempts of every single ...
  3 weeks ago

• RTI has been strengthened by judiciary: Habibullah (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) A day after the Supreme Court suspended a Central Information Commission order asking for information on the appointment of judges, outgoing Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah Saturday shied away from entering into a confrontation on the issue - and praised the judiciary for ...
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• Judiciary has strengthened RTI: Habibullah

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Outgoing Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah Saturday said that the judiciary had helped to strengthen the functioning of the Right To Information (RTI) Act.“The judiciary has strengthened the functioning of the RTI Act,” Habibullah said at a media interaction at the Indian ...
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• Give Batla House shoot-out accused FIR copy: court

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday asked the Delhi Police to give those accused of involvement in the Batla House shoot-out, a copy of the first information report (FIR), as sought by them under the Right to Information Act.Justice Sanjiv Khanna said: “Police have not been able to give any ...
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• Plain English guide to data protection

  
  Yorkshire and Humber ICT Champion — Authority: 137
  A guide to data protection law accredited by the Plain Language Commission has been published by official regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office. ‘The Guide to Data Protection’ gives practical advice to those with day-to-day responsibility for data protection, taking a straightforward look at the ...
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• Nine DU college principals fined for flouting RTI

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Principals of nine Delhi University (DU) colleges have been fined Rs.5,000 each for not complying with the Right To Information (RTI) Act rule of placing information about their college in the public domain.The Central Information Commission (CIC) acted against the principals for not following ...
  4 weeks ago

• Misues of personal data led to pensinoers death

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  The reckless misuse of personal data led to the death of a pensioner, a report by the information watchdog found.
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