After the Portsmouth result last night I don’t think anything will save us, looks like we’re going down.

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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

How FOI helped unravel to Post Office Horizon Scandal Remember the big Post Office scandal? One person played a massive part in uncovering the evidence that eventually brought the extent of the collusion and malpractice to light. In this lightning talk…

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

Pub landlady blasts 'tight-fisted' Labour MP for only ordering starter Karen Errington, the chef-owner of the Rat Inn in the hamlet of Anick, near the Northumbrian town of Hexham, didn't name the allegedly parsimonious politician.

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.

ICO must investigate Reform ‘competition’ for data protection breaches The ICO must investigate a Reform UK ‘competition’ which asks the public to hand over details of their voting preferences in order to be eligible to win their energy bills being paid for a year.

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 banned from making FOI requests on website A spokesperson for WhatDoTheyKnow confirmed the move.

Rupert Lowe, the gift that keeps on giving.

A spokesperson for WhatDoTheyKnow confirmed the move. #FOI

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

But he was very very sorry and he’s only a Nazi because of his bipolar. Allegedly.

Bit pricey and yeah don’t like that sort of venue

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

Pretty disastrous probably.

Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally

Does your AI need data protection training?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How might an FOI Network encourage the protection and expansion of Freedom of Information in the UK? · Luma The FOI Network is currently an informal coalition of civil society organisations, journalists, and academics interested in Freedom of Information (FOI) in the…

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 pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias Academics discover black people ‘significantly more likely’ to be identified when compared with other ethnic groups

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. 🙏

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RESEARCH FUNDING | Long Covid SOS Long Covid SOS call for dedicated research funding. Write to your MP using our template letter and demand investment in Long Covid research.

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
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Action Alert: Complain to OFCOM about GB News - Muslim Engagement and Development GB News recently aired a segment where it was claimed that some Pakistani men celebrate Eid by “inviting families round to rape white women.”

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...