As GCHQ keeps tabs on FOI requestors, what does “national security” mean?
14 December 2010
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Following an FOI request instigated by yours truly, it has emerged that GCHQ are keeping tabs on FOI requestors. Even those requestors who have asked public authorities for a copy of GCHQ’s widely distributed, declassified, IT security documentation. The circumstances of my request illustrates why the FOIA exemption (Section 23) pertaining “national security” is ridiculously wide, and raises questions as to what “national security” now means. The information that was the object of my desires is sexily entitled: “HMG IA
