What’s in a Junior Civil Servant’s Name? Personal Data Stoopid – Panopticon

Posted April 24th, 2018 in civil servants, data protection, disclosure, news, tribunals by sally

‘If there is one thing everyone using FOIA is used to, it is the idea that the personal data (names, contact details) of ‘junior civil servants’ will be redacted out of the disclosed information, applying the section 40(2) personal data exemption. Unless there is a good reason not to. But what if everyone is wrong? Is redacting junior civil servants just a personal data shibboleth?’

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Panopticon, 23rd April 2018

Source: panopticonblog.com