Response to the Cabinet Office’s ‘Making Open Data Real’ consultation. The response emphasises the extent to which the government’s vision of improvements to accountability, service quality, efficiency, choice and citizen empowerment depend on the FOI Act, since (a) although data may highlight discrepancies in performance, the broader right of access provided by the FOI Act is […]
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Updated October 2011. This letter to the Deputy Commissioner, David Smith, raises a number of concerns about the Information Commissioner’s data protection guidance on ‘Access to Information Held in Complaints Files’. The Deputy Commission replied to the letter saying the Campaign’s comments would be taken into account should the guidance be revised.
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The Campaign has published its response to the consultation by the Lord Chancellor’s Department on the subject access provisions of the Data Protection Act. It is calling for people to have the right (a) to know when information has been withheld from them under one of the DPA exemptions; (b) to be able to appeal to
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The Campaign has supported an application to the Court of Appeal for leave to appeal against a county court decision on the right of access to manual files under the Data Protection Act. The court had held that the files in question were not part of a “relevant filing system” and were therefore not covered
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Reply to the Campaign’s letter concerning patient’s rights and the Data Protection Act 1998.
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This May 2000 letter to the Department of Health explains the Campaign’s concerns about the loss of patients’ rights as a result of the repeal of most of the Access to Health Records Act 1990 and the incorporation of its provisions into the Data Protection Act 1998.
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A series of amendments to the Data Protection Bill were drafted by the Campaign for Freedom of Information and tabled by Richard Shepherd MP at the bill’s report stage in the House of Commons on 2 July 1998. The amendments (which appeared as numbers 15-17 on the order paper) were all debated, but none of
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Reply to the Campaign’s letter concerning secrecy and the operation of the new data protection legislation. (The Data Protection Registrar subsequently said that she found the Campaign’s views on this issue “persuasive” and did not agree with the views expressed by the Home Office in this letter.)
June 2, 1998 Dear Mr Howarth, I am writing to express our concern about the confidentiality clause in the Data Protection Bill, which we believe is likely to lead to considerable unnecessary secrecy about the operation of the data protection legislation.
A new right of access to manual files had to be introduced by October 1998 to comply with an EU Directive. In this response to a Home Office consultation document the Campaign set out some of its views on the Directive. It called for existing rights of access under the Data Protection Act to be improved
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