[basa]

Originally Posted by BBKing

Exalted Personage Of The Dear Leader, May He Reign For One Thousand Years (and friends).

---------- Post added at 10:27 ---------- Previous post was at 10:20 ----------

Originally Posted by Stuart C

I am pretty sure that any information (and I mean any) that might endanger National Security would be restricted by the Official Secrets act. I would be surprised if, the FOIA overrules the Official Secrets Act if they conflict. The Data Protection Act doesn't. Put simply, the Data Protection Act doesn't apply to any systems where Offical Secrets are stored. I would be surprised if the FOIA applied to any information stored under the Official Secrets act.

And the government place an awful lot of their information under the Official Secrets act. My mum had to sign the official secrets act because she worked in a bank where the government ONCE had an account. My sister has signed it because she worked for the DSS.

I had to sign it when I joined (the now defunct) PSA.

Declaration: To be signed by members of Government Departments on appointment and, where desirable, by non-civil servants on first being given access to Government information.

I don't recall any character / police checks though !!??