UK launches data reform to boost innovation, economic growth and protect the public gov.uk/government/new… | @DCMS press release with link to a "wide-ranging consultation on proposed changes to the UK's data landscape" gov.uk/government/con… (currently 404) | #dataprotection
Good to see this. My recommendation: the new UK #dataprotection law should include reduced record-keeping requirements for organisations with fewer than 250 employees, and also more generally encourage the ICO to take account of the specific needs of SMEs. #UKGDPR#datareform
Edwards on #FOI: "For some requests, I think it is legitimate to ask a requester to meet the cost of some of that administration. Otherwise, you see, there is a potential for cross-subsidisation of people who are over-using or even abusing those rights …"
The GC's list includes some useful datasets, but also quite a few errors. The effect is to overstate the number of #opendata resources that are readily available for the purposes of housing and planning in the UK.
I'll just run through some of the licensing issues …
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The "Open MasterMap" products and APIs mentioned in today's announcement will go live in summer 2020, so there's no #opendata you can download right away.
We don't yet have full specs either. For example OS is still validating its proposal for the Open USRN dataset.