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One for #FOI and #EIR people I've just watched Channel 4's Dirty Business. Wow. Hit me like a brick. Environmental Information Regulations = critical! Can you help with 🧵last post where to formulate EIR request for one specific South West Water site? #dirtybusiness #sewage

Hear Eleanor's short talk from FOI Fest on our podcast, where we're releasing each session separately - ideal listening on your commute or while washing up or walking the dog! www.mysociety.org/podcast/how-... #FOI #FOIFest #FreedomofInformation #PostOfficeScandal

Awful woman obviously needs data protection training as well as education on manners. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Well done to Reform UK Ltd for what looks like the old CC not BCC routine.

Reform UK have been reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) by Open Rights Group, a campaign for digital rights, over suspected breach of data laws over the free energy bills ‘competition.’

Rupert Lowe, the gift that keeps on giving. A spokesperson for WhatDoTheyKnow confirmed the move. #FOI www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Excited to launch our new course at Act Now Training Data Breach Management – When the Big One Hits Organisations that have planned their response are better at containing damage when the worst happens. I've got 4 dates available, book now! actnow.org.uk/courses/5674

The legend that is the original Yorkie! Huge thank you to York Supporters Trust for helping to arrange and to Steve and New Yorkie for taking time out from hospitality to do pics with me and mum! ❤️🔴🔵 #NonLeagueDay

Does your AI need data protection training? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What better time for an online workshop from the FOI Network on... How might an FOI Network encourage the protection and expansion of Freedom of Information in the UK? Join us online at midday on Wednesday 1 April to discuss luma.com/erlh5p2b

Bumper freedom of information thread for your delectation and delight (and disquiet): - Links to great FOI Fest videos, a month on - A couple of big FOI stories in the FT this week - Details of the first FOI Network online event (join us!)

Essex police have paused the use of live facial recognition technology - deployed so far by at least 13 police forces - after a study found cameras were significantly more likely to target black people than people of other ethnicities www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We're in urgent need of funds for the foodbank. If you can spare anything, Aviva will match it! Please donate if you can so we can meet our target. 🙏 communitiesfund.avivafoundation.org.uk/p/2026-in-20...

6 years in and still suffering. Life-changing for so many of us. @wesstreeting How about a Labour Party policy on Long Covid? 🙏#LongcovidawarnessDay www.longcovidsos.org/researchfund...

Kitten has been spayed. The battle to keep her surgery tshirt on has been lost, she just takes it off like a human. Smart little cookie. Might have to be the cone of shame instead…

Full of cold. Every time I blow my nose, Sarina tries to run off with my tissue before I can get it in the bin as I kind of screw it up into a ball and she’s obsessed with carrying paper around. Found a receipt in my boot earlier. 🤧 Send cats being stupid videos.

Had a good chat about the Grok AI controversy… actnowtraining.blog #AI #DataProtection #GDPR

Why is trade union membership special category data under UK #GDPR? Surely such discrimination no longer happens here… oh wait.

Lots of laughs tonight with @penfolduk.bsky.social at #leicestercomedyfestival with Aisha & Hasan. 🤣🤣

🗳️ ➡️ www.surveymonkey.com/r/DVJZVHR

Very much looking forward to this today lnkd.in/eRHcxYhG

GB ‘News’ propaganda hits a new low. Disgusting islamophobia. Complaint submitted. GB News recently aired a segment where it was claimed that some Pakistani men celebrate Eid by "inviting families round to rape white women." www.mend.org.uk/whats-new/ac...

Absolutely shameful article. Using the recent death of a London student murdered by another London student to push the anti-immigrant narrative. Leicester’s diversity is its strength. Maybe look at 15 years of austerity as to why there’s crime. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Commencement No.6 and transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2016 Trips off the tongue. Lots more switched on as of Feb 5th. www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/82...

Two of our Iranian foodbank volunteers yesterday had both lost people in the massacres. Looking at the photos was heartbreaking. Keep talking about Iran #FreeIran‌

Kitten is still blepping 😻

Reform Party UK sharing Pro-ICE posts on social media. They support seizing 5 year olds as bait, and the extra judicial murder of civilians.

Women, please be vigilant www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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FOI Fest 2026 19 Feb 2026, London/online • Hear how FOI has shaped the past 21 years and its impact across society • Connect with FOI practitioners, researchers, advocates + users • Bridge the gap between requesters, responders + policymakers • Discuss challenges + strategies • Leave inspired

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#FOI s14 fail by DWP.

Your bank holidays for 2026 #FOI

New releases from the National Archives of government records from 2005 show how ministers and officials reacted uneasily to the implementation of FOI, and how they handled some initial cases - "This is becoming a real problem". What I found in the files: rosenbaum6.substack.com/p/tony-we-ha...

⏰ Last chance! Nominations for the #eCaseFOIAwards close 2nd Jan! Celebrate the people and teams making FOI work better. Visit: ecasefoiawards.co.uk

Awful news today that wonderful Cllr Manjula Sood has died and the city has lost an amazing public servant & leader, and many of us have lost an inspiration and a friend. She was one of the few people who came to my wedding. Some lovely memories, but am feeling very sad right now.

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… oh except for this little monster doing zoomies.

Labour announcing wide-ranging NHS support for care leavers… this is brilliant. Kids in care need so much more help. 👏 🏥… free prescriptions, dental and eye care… 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️… to joined up mental health support, paid internships and guaranteed interviews for jobs in the NHS!

The government says it's not planning to extend FOI to cover Electoral Returning Officers. However, the forthcoming elections legislation will be a good opportunity to raise this issue further and for someone to propose an amendment to change this.

Looks like Reform aren’t fans of #FOI. 5 months and still haven’t answered properly?

Delivering my last Act Now Training course for this year today, the 1-day #FOI A-Z. Next one is 19th March, book now. actnow.org.uk/lynnwyeth

Do you know what you should be proactively publishing by law? Is your Publication Scheme for for purpose? Find out in the next free eCase webinar with myself and Sarah Laws. 18th Dec 12 noon. #FOI #FreedomOfInformation #Transparency ecase.co.uk/events/

Do you have an absolute rising star in your FOI team? NOMINATE them today via a simple form for the #eCaseFOIAwards which will showcase their great work. ecasefoiawards.co.uk