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The PHSO will never uphold a complaint about their friends the ICO.
FOI2018/11542
Jonathan Baines
[FOI #508374 email]
Dear Mr Baines,
Thank you for your email of 8 August, in which you made the following
reques...
Dear Mr Baines,
Please see attached response to your Freedom of Information request.
Regards
Freedom of Information
Central Disclosure...
Dear Mr Baines
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.
In response to yo...
Dear Justin
Many thanks.
Best wishes,
Jon
Dear Mr Baines,
Re: Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI-054200)
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated...
Dear Mr Baines
Please find attached the response to your Freedom of Information request.
We apologise that this is late. Missing a statutor...
Dear Pierrette
Many thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Jonathan Baines
Thank you for contacting the Information Commissioner’s Office. We confirm
that we have received your correspondence.
If you have made a request...
13 April 2015
Case Reference Number IRQ0574435
Dear Mr Baines,
Please find attached PDF 3 of 3. This concludes our response to your
requ...
Many thanks Kunjal
Yours sincerely,
Jonathan Baines
12 December 2014
Case Reference Number IRQ0561451
Dear Mr Baines
Thank you for your email.
When the ICO comes to a conclusion about thi...
Dear Mr Baines
Thank you for your request for a review. Please find attached a letter of response.
Yours sincerely
Iain Hockenhull
Head of Corr...
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7 January 2014
Case Reference Number IRQ0525832
Dear Mr Baines
Thank you for your message, stating that your request is wit...
Many thanks Steven
Best wishes
Jonathan Baines
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16th August 2013
Case Reference Number IRQ0505313
Part 5 attached (final response).
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycl...
Interesting... first point responses on FOIA enquiries made through the Whatdotheyknow website always pass through the website. I see no evidence of a...
Dear Birgitte
Many thanks for the disclosure
with best wishes
Jonathan Baines
Thank you for emailing the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). This
is an automatic acknowledgement to tell you we have received your email
saf...
Dear Rebecca
Many thanks for your comprehensive reply.
Yours sincerely
Jonathan Baines
Dear Rachel
Many thanks for the reply, and it's good to note the data security procedures you have in place.
Yours sincerely,
Jonathan Baines
See also;
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/undertaking_enf0407902
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21 December 2012
Case Reference Number IRQ0476845
Dear Mr Baines
Further to our acknowledgment of 11 December 2012 we are now in a p...
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28 September 2012
Case Reference Number IRQ0462817
Dear Mr Baines
Please find further information attached. This is the final email. ...
This person's 52 annotations
Another case where the ICO has taken NINE months to respond to a simple request.
Here, the ICO took *192* working days simply to say that they had received one complaint about a barristers' chambers.
That's a delay of 172 working...
It’s notable that this Internal Review response doesn’t deal with what has been happening with the request up until Craig Ineson received it, which is...
It's a common misconception (bolstered by the ICO's sometimes misleading language) that "registration" is a prerequisite for processing as a controller...
In its response the ICO says that the complete information regarding how it processes complaints is contained in its Operations Service Guide, a docume...
There is no statutory obligation on the ICO to publish its register of controllers who have paid a fee under regulation 2 of The Data Protection (Charg...
Processors have no need to make any notification at all. Stirling Council's entry on the register of fee-paying controllers can been found by searching...
Public authorities are not obliged to maintain or publish disclosure logs, so ICO won't have this information.
ICO's own disclosure log is itself a...
PECR doesn't state this, as you know, but (to the extent that personal data is involved) fairness and consent under GDPR need to be considered.
@Madeline - the real world situation where I, like countless others, have different email accounts for different things. I have gmail addresses for va...
@Madeline Bowles
'...if an organisation asked someone it corresponds with "are you happy to hear from us by email?" such a request, if met with an af...
It appears the ICO has withdrawn its bizarre assertion that a DPO conflict of interest would be a criminal matter. I still think the refusal is poor th...
This is a bizarre refusal by ICO, which suggests that a DPO conflict of interest is potentially a criminal offence. It's not, and I've written about th...
Before one even gets on to the public interest balancing test, this response fails to explain *why* prejudice would be likely to occur. This is such a...
This spreadsheet contains all the civil monetary penalties (aka “fines”) that the ICO has ever imposed: https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/csvs...
Extraordinary.
Ignoring the substantive point that it is utterly bizarre that internal guidance on the law could cause the harm referred to by the I...
I suspect you know the answer already, but just in case not, see: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-da...
"It may be helpful to explain that we use a third-party provider, Goss
Interactive, to supply and support our live chat service."
In which case, p...
I thought this was such an extraordinary refusal, I blogged about it here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/enforcement_in_4_sectors#outgoing-827...
As it may take a while for ICO to reply, I can confirm that there is no distinction in the DPA 2018 between public authorities and other entities when...
ICO suggest that there is only one document in scope here, and as the obligation of confidence cannot apply to correspondence sent *from* ICO *to* Fave...
I do find this odd. In the foreword to the book (which appears to have been withdrawn by its publisher: https://www.koganpage.com/search-results?keywor...
This is a remarkable refusal by ICO.
Firstly, they have failed to state - before moving to the public interest test - why it is reasonable in the ci...
ICO publishes a spreadsheet of all civil monetary penalties since 2010 at https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/csvs/2259491/civil-monetary-penalt...
Oddly, the book in question appears to have been withdrawn from the publisher's website.