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Every year from around April to September, we see an uptick on people sharing links to our Freedom of Information site, WhatDoTheyKnow on Reddit forums. The reason? It's the peak time for anxieties ar...

Are you one of the many who has watched the BBC's two-parter Buried with Michael Sheen? If so, you may have experienced increasing levels of outrage as the actor helps to uncover the scandalous dumpin...

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The government is looking at whether public bodies should have more freedom to charge for access to their data, and we've responded to its call for evidence. There are good reasons to be cautious abo...

Governing Freedom of Information in the UK Tl;dr: the governance model of the ICO is changing and FOI isn’t well-represented in their new strategy. Here is how it could be made better. Freedom of Inf...

With all the fuss about Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister, it may be easy to forget that he’s been in Parliament before — as an MP. That means that he already had a page on TheyWorkForYou, our…

The democratic landscape in Wales has changed... and so has our 'contact your politician' website WriteToThem. In a webinar today, we invited Jess Blair from ERS Cymru to talk through how the Senedd…

We think it should be easier to reliably answer the basic questions: what AI systems are public bodies using? How are those systems affecting people?

The EIR is a similar set of rights to those we have under Freedom of Information, but specifically give access to environmental information held by public authorities. Those who remember reading abou...

The democratic landscape in Wales has changed... and so has our 'contact your politician' website WriteToThem. In a webinar today, we invited Jess Blair from ERS Cymru to talk through how the Senedd ...

Join mySociety to relaunch WriteToThem in Wales and learn how to reach the right representative in a changed democratic landscape. Wales's democratic map has…

Join mySociety to relaunch WriteToThem in Wales and learn how to reach the right representative in a changed democratic landscape. Wales's democratic map has…

With all the fuss about Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister, it may be easy to forget that he’s been in Parliament before — as an MP. That means that he already had a page on TheyWorkForYou, our web...