Monday, September 24, 2007

FOI Podcast - Episode 8 available

Episode 8 of the UK’s first Freedom of Information podcast by Ibrahim Hasan.

In July and August 2007 the Information Commissioner published sixty four FOI decisions whilst the Information Tribunal published seven. This podcast guides you through some of these.

Amongst other things, in this episode Ibrahim will be discussing

• The first appeal against an Information Notice
• Disclosure of staff names and contact details
• The first Commissioner decisions involving GPs
• Disclosure of bids received for the purchase of council land
• Whether statistics can still be personal data
• Disclosure of dead peoples’ information
• AND when retrieval of information amounts to the creation of new information

The podcast can be listened to by going to http://www.informationlaw.org.uk/page10.htm

The raw feed http://informationlaw.jellycast.com/podcast/feed/5 for those of you with RSS feed readers.

There you can also download previous scripts and podcasts.

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