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Kent Councillor Faces GDPR Questions Over Use of Private Email for Casework

June 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

A Kent County Councillor’s unconventional approach to correspondence is drawing scrutiny over data protection compliance. Tim Prater (pictured) – newly elected in May [...]

Council has cost ratepayers millions when it was not necessary

January 8, 2023 // 6 Comments

The portfolio he overseas as Cabinet Member for Transport and Digital Transformation, includes Traffic management, on and off street Parking, Information technology, Customer [...]

Part 2: The gift which keeps on giving

December 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

There are those who believe BS baffles brains. But when dealing with a qualified FoI practitioner, such as our public face, one knows when one is being feed BS by our [...]

Russell Tillson uses confidential information in Wimble’s Looker magazine and places lives in danger.

March 16, 2022 // 4 Comments

Updated – Thursday 17.3.22 @ 08:12am. On Wednesday 9 February, 2022, St Mary’s in the Marsh Parish Cllr, Russell Tillson, wrote the front page story in The [...]

Another Council Data Breach reveals £164,500 is owed in unpaid PCNs

January 31, 2022 // 2 Comments

Updated 01/02/22 @ 16:25 In yet another data breach by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, we now know that 127 people owe £164,498 for 1,667 unpaid Parking Charge [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors breach data protection law again

June 23, 2021 // 4 Comments

We’ll not beat about the bush and come straight to the point. Since the Waste Collection contract fiasco, many of you have contacted us regarding your Cllrs and their [...]

Council’s Corporate Retention Schedule is just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

June 21, 2021 // 1 Comment

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and none of this blah means anything, or if it does, it contradicts any other blah, blah, blah, blah, blah Folkestone & Hythe District [...]

FHDC not compliant with post-Schrems II data protection law?

June 2, 2021 // 1 Comment

Back in Dec 2020 we posted the following blog: The Council’s Facebook Page – some questions for them We asked Folkestone & Hythe District Council the questions and [...]

‘Should’ve gone to Specsavers’

January 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

The Local Government Transparency Code sets out the minimum data that Folkestone & Hythe District Council should be publishing, the frequency it should be published and [...]

Digital Judas betrays us all

November 29, 2020 // 1 Comment

Mobile phones, long a tool of liberation, have now become a digital Judas, regardless who we are, or where we are from. Mobile phones have helped tens of thousands of [...]

Kent & other Police forces take too much data from victims’ phones, says watchdog

June 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Almost two years ago to the day, we ran the blog post The Long Read: Kent Police can extract mobile phone data without your knowledge, your consent or a warrant. That post [...]

Actions speak louder than words

November 6, 2019 // 6 Comments

The Folkestone & Hythe Labour Party openly admit and state in their privacy policy they are a data controller in their own right: As they openly claim that they are a [...]

This affects you all

April 5, 2019 // 2 Comments

Have you received your privacy notice from your employer? Have your children, teenager received theirs from the educational establishment they attend? And what about you the [...]

Official Diaries Part 2: East Kent Hospital Trust says yes. Folkestone & Hythe DC says no.

February 4, 2019 // 1 Comment

East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) have released Susan Acott’s , the Chief Executive’s diary. It is not as open as Cllr Paul [...]

Biggins Woods financial viability assessment – Here we go again.

December 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

At the end of October we brought you the post – A victory for the public interest In short it was about trying to secure via the Environmental Information Regulations, [...]

Princes Parade is NOT a done deal

September 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

Cambridge educated Cllr Russell Tillson, (pictured below) who is a Cllr on Dymchurch Parish Council, St Mary’s Bay Parish Council, a town Councillor on New Romney Town [...]

Biggins Wood, Cheriton: Planning Application Y17/0888/SH

October 31, 2017 // 1 Comment

Shepway District Council have submitted Planning Application Y17-0888-SH which is linked to planning application Y13/0024/SH to erect 49 industrial units (4562 sqm) and 2 [...]

Criminal?

October 25, 2017 // 1 Comment

There are a number of companies in the group and the “brand” known as “Sir Roger De Haan”. The “brand” relating to the harbour is as far [...]

Failings to Pro-actively Disseminate “Environmental Information”.

August 22, 2017 // 1 Comment

It’s been 13 years and still they have not fully complied. It’s not just them though, they are we can assure you in good company. The Port of Dover, Folkestone [...]

Serious Data Breach of Personal Information By Shepway District Council.

August 14, 2017 // 2 Comments

Shepway District Council have released the names of 82 individuals in their Excel Payments to Suppliers data, July 2017. The names, addresses and pay data belonging to the [...]

Mass Data Purge at Shepway District Council

August 10, 2015 // 1 Comment

I have sent this FOI requests see below. It is about a mass data purge of information . I argue that disclosure of the data purge information would facilitate the [...]

Criminals in our Council Chamber? You decide.

August 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Shepway District Cllrs are Data Controllers. As a data controller one must by law, be signed up to the ICO Register of Data Controllers. To not sign up is a criminal offence, [...]

ICO Data Register

July 29, 2015 // 1 Comment

As you may or may not know Councillors wear up to three hats in the normal course of their activities. As participants in Council Committees and decision-making, they are [...]

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