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Last month Techdirt wrote about yet more secret meetings between the copyright and internet industries, this time in Australia, where th...

One of the most amazing - and heartening - developments in the world of openness recently has been the emergence of the open government move...

This is not as it's supposed to be: Secretive management at Southampton University are undermining the spirit of Freedom of Information...

Without doubt, one of the most exciting recent developments in the world of openness has been the sudden fervour with which the British gove...

Remarkable : Public bodies should automatically release all information that does not need to stay secret, the information commissioner is e...

Maybe something good can come out of the unholy mess of the MPs' expenses: Mr Brown said that politicians had to "prove themselves...

If any one person deserves credit for bringing openness to MPs' expenses, it is Heather Brooke , who almost single-handedly has fought f...

I just knew this was coming: Labour and the Tories left the door open today for a future move to exempt the full details of MPs expenses f...

In the light of Gordon's recent wobbly over our Freedom of Information Act, lets hope he reads carefully the following memo from his n...

I always thought that the Ordnance Survey had a rather, er, Olympian view of things that was more suited to the top-down twentieth century t...

I was already teetering on the brink of opting out of the NHS patient database; this just pushed me over: A new national database of confid...

Here's a heartening sign that the change of management at the top of the UK government (no names, no pack drill) is resulting in a littl...

Openness and governments go together like horses and horseless carriages, so I was heartened to come across what sounds like a major victory...

Anders Chydenius is hardly a well-known name; it should be: Last year, the Anders Chydenius Foundation celebrated the 240th anniversary of...

It is probably hard for those outside the UK to appreciate the extent of the secrecy that has pervaded public life here for centuries. The ...