@ f i n Fun with(out) Freedom of Information (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n s i x NOT A LAWYER. a r p / e m (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n s i x a r p / e m (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n m s i l a n r u o j a t a d (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
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@ f i n a t »who are you?« a d »why would you want to know?« »we can’t give that to you because [silly reason]« (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n w o n t a h w (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n Freedom of Information = I Right to Access to Information (held by public bodies) O ECHR: Human Right F Implied by Freedom of Expression First: Sweden 1766; US 1966 (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n Everyone can ask for Information I Default: they get it O F Request denial only in certain circumstances and with valid reasons c i s If denied: sue/complain at administrational court s a l c (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n »Jackson told reporters that he was legally obligated to release the tape because members of the media s had submitted an open records requests for it.« e i r »However, a review of open records requests sent to o t the Ferguson Police Department found that no news s organization, reporter or individual specifically i o sought the release of the surveillance tape before f police distributed it on Aug. 15.« (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n s Intelligence O ffi cials Admit That Edward Snowden's e i r NSA Leaks Call For Reforms o t »a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Electronic Frontier s Foundation, which revealed that the NSA admitted in 2009 to breaching FISC rules i regarding the suspicionless surveillance of thousands of phone numbers.« o f (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n s NSA illegally collected thousands of emails, US e admits i r o t »A National Security Agency surveillance system illegally gathered up to 56,000 s personal emails by Americans annually, declassified court documents show. … The court's opinions, which are usually kept secret, were revealed by the government i o in response to a Freedom of Information request …« f (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n Massacre of the Red Caps s It was the largest single loss of life under enemy fire since the Falklands war - six e British soldiers murdered in a tumbledown police station in southern Iraq. i r Information released under the FOI Act reveals for the first time serious o allegations that are at odds with o ffi cial accounts of the episode. They shine fresh t light on an incident that still casts a pall over Britain's involvement in Iraq more s than 30 months on. Documents suggest that the army, told the Red Caps were trapped, did not order a rescue mission and that the men may still have been alive i o when an o ffi cer from one of the UK's elite fighting units, who was nearby, was told f they were cornered, but chose not to o ff er assistance because it was too dangerous. (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n Private security costs £150m s e Britain has paid out more than £150m on security guards and training for local i r police to protect diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 400 guards were o hired from four specialists security firms: Control Risks Group, ArmorGroup, Kroll t Security Group and Edinburgh Risk Security Management. Between May 2003 and s August 2006, the Government agreed contracts totalling £152m. The details of i the contracts were revealed to Channel 4 News Online, under the FOI Act. The o f biggest single bill was £47.8m for contracts in Iraq for 2005-06. (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n s e David Beckham tried to control the National Portrait i r Gallery's use of his picture o t s David Beckham was not keen to let a national art gallery use his ubiquitous image, according to documents obtained under the FOI Act. … i o f (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n Embassies 'lose' dozens of artworks s e i r Dozens of artworks worth tens of thousands of pounds have vanished from British o embassies or residences around the world over the past decade. At least 42 t paintings, prints and sculptures from the Government Art Collection have been s stolen, lost or destroyed, according to information gained through the FOI Act. None of the works were insured and apart from objects that were known to have i o been stolen, more than half the total simply disappeared for no known reason. f (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n Computer increases waiting list times s In December 2005, just 12 people were waiting more than six months for an e operation in England. But in the same month the Connecting for Health computer i r systems were launched on a trial basis at the Nu ffi eld Orthopaedic Hospital Trust o in Oxford the number of people waiting longer than six months started to rise. t Within a few weeks more than 100 people in England were waiting longer than six s months, most of them at the Nu ffi eld, which insists that the problem is now resolved. Sta ff who were instructed to sort out the problem could not even i o establish from the malfunctioning computers which patients had been waiting the f longest and the numbers kept climbing. Details of the waiting list problems at the Nu ffi eld were released under the FOI Act. (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n »Some Not-Very-Revealing Pictures Of An FBI Retirement Party« s e »FCC Complaints About Inappropriate Content On i r South Park« o t s »The FBI’s Twitter Slang Dictionary« i o »A Fan Letter From J. Edgar Hoover to His Favorite f n Athlete« u f (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n » so what? that’s journalism, not hacking!« (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n you can ask for gov’t databases! (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n s r e k c a h y h w (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n shapefiles! s r e k c a h y h w (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n think like a public o ffi cial (even if it hurts) what data do they need to do their work? (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n n o i t a u t i s h e rti-rating.org t HAPPY NOW? (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n LAW ON FREE ACCESS TO INFORMATION OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE a i ZAKON O SLOBODNOM PRISTUPU INFORMACIJAMA OD b r JAVNOG ZNA Č AJA e s & Constitution of Serbia, Article 51. Paragraph 2: "Everyone shall have the right to access information kept by state bodies and organizations with delegated public powers, in accordance with the law." (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n Artikel 20, Bundes-Verfassung m (4) Alle mit Aufgaben der (3) Alle mit Aufgaben der Verwaltung betrauten Verwaltung betrauten e Organe haben Organe sind zur l b Auskünfte zu erteilen Verschwiegenheit o soweit gesetzliche verpflichtet , soweit r Verschwiegenheitspflicht gesetzlich nicht P nicht entgegensteht. anderes bestimmt ist. (Amtsgeheimnis) s a D (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n "Mutwillig handle unter anderem, wer sich im Bewußtsein der Grund- und Aussichtslosigkeit, Artikel 20, der Nutz- und Zwecklosigkeit seines Bundes-Verfassung Handelns an die Behörde wende" m (4) Alle mit Aufgaben der (3) Alle mit Aufgaben der Verwaltung betrauten Verwaltung betrauten e Organe haben Organe sind zur l b Auskünfte zu erteilen Verschwiegenheit o soweit gesetzliche verpflichtet , soweit r Verschwiegenheitspflicht gesetzlich nicht P nicht entgegensteht. anderes bestimmt ist. (Amtsgeheimnis) s a D (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
@ f i n interests of national security territorial integrity or public safety s prevention of disorder or crime n o protection of health or morals i t p protection of the reputation or the rights of others e c preventing the disclosure of information received in x confidence e d maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary i l a v (C) 2013 FOI.AT - ALLE RECHTE VORBEHALTEN Samstag, 13. September 14
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