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This person's 4 Freedom of Information requests
Operation Maxim - breakdown of statistics of United Kingdom versus Foreign passports seized
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by Watching Them, Watching Us. Annotated by Francis Irving on 10 March 2010.
Refused.
Post by Spyblog referring to this request.
http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2010/02/20/charles-crawford---hamas-killing-cloned-or-fra...
"parent departments" of the 7 civil servants seconded to the ICO
Request to Information Commissioner’s Office by Watching Them, Watching Us. Annotated by Francis Irving on 2 June 2009.
Successful.
Blog post about this request:
http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/foia/2009/05/whitehall-civil-servants-on-secondment-to-the-information...
Blog post about this request:
http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/foia/2009/02/home-office-press-office-output-for-week-of-mon-9th-feb-2...
Serious Crime Act 2007 section 71 Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud
Follow up
sent to Home Office by Watching Them, Watching Us on 13 January 2009.
Successful.
FAO: Ian Goswell, Communication Directorate
The Home Office obviously have not noticed, or do not care, that the WhatDoTheyKnow.com email address...
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Diplomatic number plates
Request to Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency by Steve Elibank. Annotated by Watching Them, Watching Us on 21 February 2011.
Refused.
Diplomatic Plate pre-fixes
http://nice-reg.co.uk/number-plates/number-plates/diplomatic-number-plates-embassy-plates.html
Example Photos (with full...
CCTV
Request to Westminster City Council by d.little. Annotated by Watching Them, Watching Us on 9 August 2010.
Successful.
So when you write in to ask for CCTV images of yourself, through a Data Protection Act 1998 Subject Data Access Request, the Council has 42 days to re...
Section 44 Terrorism Act areas
Refused.
ICO Decision Notice FS50198733 - Home Office: Terrorism Act 2000 s44 stop and search Authorisations
http://spyblog.org.uk/foia/2010/02/ico-decision-...
"parent departments" of the 7 civil servants seconded to the ICO
Request to Information Commissioner’s Office by Watching Them, Watching Us. Annotated by Watching Them, Watching Us on 12 May 2009.
Successful.
Note that this FOIA request was *not* refused on the grounds that only a *pseudonym* had been supplied rather than a "real name".
It would be much m...
Section 44 Terrorism Act areas
Refused.
The Information Commissioner's Office has, after over a year's delay, now started to investigate my complaint about the Home Office's refusal to discl...
Section 44 Terrorism Act bureaucratic procedures
Successful.
The Information Commissioner's Office has recently updated its Code of Practice on FOIA / EIR Internal Reviews
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/document...
Operation Maxim - breakdown of statistics of United Kingdom versus Foreign passports seized
Request to Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by Watching Them, Watching Us. Annotated by Watching Them, Watching Us on 26 January 2009.
Refused.
See also http://spyblog.org.uk/blog/foia/2009/01/metropolitan-police-reject-our-foia-request-using-a-pseudonym-via-whatdotheyknow.html for more analys...
Serious Crime Act 2007 section 71 Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud
Request to Home Office by Watching Them, Watching Us. Annotated by Watching Them, Watching Us on 13 January 2009.
Successful.
The Home Office obviously have not noticed, or do not care, that the WhatDoTheyKnow.com email address actually represents several different FOIA reque...
Serious Crime Act 2007 section 71 Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud
Request to Home Office by Watching Them, Watching Us. Annotated by Watching Them, Watching Us on 9 October 2008.
Successful.
Incredibly, there is no specific mention of Encryption in the supposed safeguards of our sensitive personal data under this statutory Code of Practice...
Serious Crime Act 2007 section 71 Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud
Request to Home Office by Watching Them, Watching Us. Annotated by Watching Them, Watching Us on 12 September 2008.
Successful.
For the background to this request, see
The next Home Office data security and privacy disaster ? Sharing all our financial details with private sec...
Section 44 Terrorism Act areas
Refused.
You can see the lack of progress of a similar, but much more restricted request, which simply asked for the Geographical Locations and the Durations o...
Intercept Modernisation Programme
Successful.
Details of correspondence or meetings with some public Commissioners, who are neither part of the civil service nor of civil society, would also be of...
