UK and US insights into FOI and privacy challenges

This interview with the UK Information Commissioner Richard Thomas provides some useful insights into current and emerging FOI and privacy issues.

Here's the short version – and this is the link to the full text which will give you plenty of interesting, thought provoking reading – all 20 pages.

And if you really want to know about just how much “big brother” is watching in the UK, have a read of this.

In the US a documentary "Big Brother, Big Business" has just been shown on CNBC. Not sure when it will run here but in the meantime here is a site that shows some interesting video clips.

Thanks to David Fraser's privacylawbog for the lead on CNBC