Tesco have now responded to our data protection request. They’ve sent through a 13 page letter which includes printouts and screen shots from their various systems. Unfortunately, they haven’t provided me with an electronic copy of anything, so I’d have to retype everything in order to use the data for anything useful. [...]
While we’re still waiting for a full response from Tesco, I wanted to tell you about a Data Protection Request that went right.
At the same time as making the original Tesco request, I also sent out a few other requests to some smaller businesses. Included amongst this group was a business that used to sell [...]
We like data at CF Labs – indeed we’d be nothing without lots of lovely data to build our apps around. So it’s logical that we’re committed to opening up and sharing data that we feel is in the public interest but is withheld unnecessarily or unfairly – think raw, infinitely useful data idling on [...]