Safe to be Open: Study on the protection of research data and re. Berlin court rules Google privacy policy violates data protectio. CMA cases. Obama Tells Chinese He’s Disappointed Over Snowden Case. The BBC in the Tribunal: not a public authority under the EIR; strong arguments for disclosure of licence fee legal advice. In (EA/2009/0114) , the appellant had asked the BBC various questions about its expenditure in relation to Cambridge Media and Environment Program, which researched and planned a programme of seminars that had been running since 2005 at which BBC editorial staff discussed issues such as environmental change and world development, with the objective of improving BBC journalism in those areas. The BBC is a public authority within Schedule 1 of FOIA only within the following parameters: “The British Broadcasting Corporation, in respect of information held the purposes other than those of journalism, art or literature”.
The Supreme Court addressed this “derogation” from FOIA in [2012] UKSC 4: see our post here. Concerned not only the application of to this request, but also an argument that, given the subject matter of the request and the BBC’s activities, the BBC was a public authority within the meaning of regulation 2 of the EIR.
Twitter stalking freedom of speech. NHS centralised data. Privacy. Data Protection. Cloud computing. Top Ten Internet Law Developments of 2013.