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6 unusual facts about Information Commissioner


HadCRUT

In a decision announced on 27 July 2011 the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) required release of raw data even though permissions had not been obtained or in one instance had been refused, and on 27 July 2011 CRU announced release of the raw instrumental data not already in the public domain, with the exception of Poland which was outside the area covered by the FOIA request.

Information Commissioner

All other countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area have equivalent officials created under their versions of Directive 95/46.

Office of the Information Commissioner

Information Commissioner's Office, the UK non-departmental public body and regulator for data protection

Protection of Freedoms Act 2012

This part extends the existing Freedom of Information Act 2000, extending the scope of the Act and amending the role of the Information Commissioner.

Traffic enforcement camera

The initial Freedom of information request was refused and the information was only released after an appeal to the Information Commissioner.

Ysgol Eirias

The video went unnoticed until January 31, 2011, when complaints were submitted by an anonymous individual simultaneously to the school's governors, Conwy County Borough Council education authority, General Teaching Council for Wales, Department for Education and the Information Commissioner's Office; the video was removed.



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ACS:Law

In May 2011, ACS:Law was fined £1000 for the privacy breach, with the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham commenting: "Were it not for the fact that ACS:Law has ceased trading so that Mr Crossley now has limited means, a monetary penalty of £200,000 would have been imposed, given the severity of the breach."

Awadh Samman

These include Congress leader Pramod Tiwari, former Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kesri Nath Tripathi, Lucknow Mayor Dinesh Sharma, Samajwadi Party leader Ahmad Hasan, Uttar Pradesh Information commissioner Gyanendra Sharma, Uttar Pradesh Additional Cabinet Secretary Vijay Shankar Pandey, Principal Secretary to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Shaliesh Krishna and CPI leader Atul Anjan.

Balen Report

The BBC appealed against the decision of the Information Tribunal to the High Court on two grounds: that the Information Tribunal did not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from the Information Commissioner in this case and that even if did its decision was flawed as a matter of law.

Barnardisation

The question whether barnardisation may fall short of the complete anonymisation of data and the status of barnardised data under the complex provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 were considered by the House of Lords in the case of Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner 2008 1 WLR 1550, the above case is also reported at All ER 2008 (4) 851.

Deepak Sandhu

Deepak Sandhu enjoyed the privilege of being administered the oath of office as the first woman Chief Information Commissioner of the Central Information Commission by The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.