Category: Information governance

The cost of orange peel

Our responsible citizen, Luke Gutteridge, was walking somewhere in Broxbourne council’s jurisdiction one day when he accidentally dropped a 10p sized piece of orange peel without noticing. A council enforcement officer spotted him and pointed out he’d dropped it. Mr Gutteridge immediately apologised and picked it up. That’s where this story would have stopped, but…

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Mechanisms for payment of £10 SAR fee

There’s a paucity of guidance on what mechanisms organisations must offer when charging the £10.00 SAR fee. It bugs me when an organisation accepts payments for other services via card payments and/or bank transfer, but insist on cheques for subject access requests. The only related guidance I can find is the ICO’s DPA LTT on…

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Information Commissioner’s Office’s internal guidance

These are the Information Commissioner’s Office’s policy Lines to Take and other guidance used by ICO caseworkers and policy workers when assessing issues under various information governance regimes. They are broadly split into three sets: Freedom of Information Act / Environmental Information Regulations Line to Take documents Advice Service Line to Take Documents Casework Advice…

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