Why bother? They don’t enforce the current rules as is anyway.
I’ve had 2 companies now completely ignore my Subject Access Requests. Both reported to the ICO and both cases closed as ‘yes they are doing something illegal but we won’t enforce it so you will need to sue if you want to’.
Useless organisation
sugarringdoughnut on
Honestly, some of the suggestions aren’t crazy?
> allowing individuals (and not just requests) to be labelled “vexatious”
Go have a look at whatdothey know for a big organisation like the House of Commons. There’s some absolutely mad stuff being submitted, and that’s just the ones people have done publicly
tigerjed on
Something needs to be done. The amount of public money spent on staff having to search through years of records for the most asinine requests, is silly.
teachbirds2fly on
FoI needs completely overhauled, millions of public money is being spent frivolously on pointless requests sometimes individuals using ai to put in literally 1000s of requests.
My org was going to mentioned in a foi request so checked the day thought was going up on the relevant web page, by end of the day there were 50 new pages of foi entries from the government each with about 20 entries on it all of them completely pointless.
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Why bother? They don’t enforce the current rules as is anyway.
I’ve had 2 companies now completely ignore my Subject Access Requests. Both reported to the ICO and both cases closed as ‘yes they are doing something illegal but we won’t enforce it so you will need to sue if you want to’.
Useless organisation
Honestly, some of the suggestions aren’t crazy?
> allowing individuals (and not just requests) to be labelled “vexatious”
Go have a look at whatdothey know for a big organisation like the House of Commons. There’s some absolutely mad stuff being submitted, and that’s just the ones people have done publicly
Something needs to be done. The amount of public money spent on staff having to search through years of records for the most asinine requests, is silly.
FoI needs completely overhauled, millions of public money is being spent frivolously on pointless requests sometimes individuals using ai to put in literally 1000s of requests.
My org was going to mentioned in a foi request so checked the day thought was going up on the relevant web page, by end of the day there were 50 new pages of foi entries from the government each with about 20 entries on it all of them completely pointless.