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• Hanging the laundry out

  
  Bishop Hill — Authority: 120
  In an article entitled Global warming’s ‘dirty laundry’, The Washington Times has called for the University of Virginia to release Michael Manns emails. Mr. Mann insists disclosure would have a chilling effect. “Allowing the indiscriminate release of these materials will cause damage to reputations and ...
  2 days ago

• Tom Watson on the battle for FOI

  
  Bishop Hill — Authority: 120
  Tom Watson MP, best known as the man who has uncovered so much of the UKs phone hacking scandal, gave the PA Annual Lecture on "Parliament and Phone Hacking". The lecture is here , with the discussion of FOI from 30 mins. In it he makes the case that his revelations of misbehaviour and outright corruption around the ...
  1 week ago

• Quote of the day

  
  Bishop Hill — Authority: 120
  I should declare that I am an extensive user of freedom of information legislation, particularly as regards universities, which I have found unutterably tiresome and difficult to deal with. One of their more tiresome habits is to refuse to provide information in anything other than PDF format. They get it in ...
  1 week ago

• Quote of the day

  
  Bishop Hill — Authority: 120
  I am all for making things available but, at the same time, I shall mention something which is perhaps tactless-if not even politically incorrect-which is that the Freedom of Information Act has, as many of your Lordships will know, been used as a weapon of harassment in some circumstances. The climate change ...
  1 week ago

• More from Norfolk Police

  
  Bishop Hill — Authority: 120
  Readers may remember that I asked for Norfolk Constabularys correspondence regarding the Russell inquiry - this was centred around the extraction of emails from the CRUBACK3 server by the polices forensic IT contractors, Qinetiq. Although much correspondence was released, there were many redactions, few of which made ...
  1 week ago

• US company acquires Randstad’s Indian payroll business

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Chennai, Jan 16 (IANS) US company Automatic Data Processing (ADP) has acquired the Netherland-based Randstad Holding’s Indian payroll business for an undisclosed sum to access the high-growth human resources business process outsourcing markets.Randstad’s Indian payroll business is handled by its subsidiary Ma ...
  2 weeks ago

• BBC North job applicants, hires and paygrades

  
  Sarah Hartley — Authority: 103
  This morning over at The Northerner I posted details from a recent Freedom of Information request which gives more infomation about the number of people applying for jobs and MediaCityUK, those who were hired and the paygrades in place at the new home of the Beeb in the north. To provide further transparency, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The academy wants no scrutiny

  
  Bishop Hill — Authority: 120
  A few days ago, I mentioned a suggestion that 2012 is going to be the scene of a major pushback against Freedom of Information. As part of this, Universities UK - the umbrella organisation for ivory towers - is pushing very hard for an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act, and have produced a briefing paper ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cuccinelli in court again

  
  Bishop Hill — Authority: 120
  The latest installment in the long-running legal battle over whether  or not Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli can see Michael Manns emails takes place tomorrow , according to a report in DailyPress.com.  
  2 weeks ago

• President Aquino formally endorses FOI

  
  Philippine News Daily — Authority: 123
  MANILA , Philippines - After a series of consultation, President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III formally endorsed the controversial Freedom of Information (FOI) Act yesterday. President Aquino’s “go signal” for Malacañang to promote support for FOI was granted after two hours of conference with the ...
  3 weeks ago

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