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Recording #beavers and data sharing www.gov.uk/government/p... guidance from Defra and @naturalengland.bsky.social Context: Beaver reintroduction and management in England www.gov.uk/government/c... #biodiversity #citizenscience #crowdsourcing #datasharing #opendata -ish 1/2

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UK Government spend data: ● Cabinet Office, Apr 2010 - Jan 2025 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (3.2 MB XLSX) ● DCMS, Apr 2010 - Jan 2025 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (1.3 MB XLSX) ● DfE, Apr 2010 - Dec 2024 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (49.6 MB zipped CSV) #publicspending #opendata

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UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) spend data April 2010 - January 2025 drive.google.com/uc?export=do... (41.1 MB zipped XLSX) #publicspending #localgov #opendata

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Satellogic EarthView Dataset Now Openly Accessible via Registry of Open Data on AWS satellogic.com/news/press-r... from Satellogic Access details satellogic-earthview.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.html Paper by Diego Velazquez et al doi.org/10.48550/arX... #geospatial #EOdata #opendata

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UK ministers consider changing AI plans to protect creative industries www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Closed consultation: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence www.gov.uk/government/c... #AIpolicy #techlaw #IPlaw #genAI Unworkability is no barrier to legislation 👍

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Landing page for the committee scrutinising the Data (Use and Access) Bill in the UK House of Commons, from 4 March 2025 committees.parliament.uk/committee/78... No list of members yet. Call for evidence www.parliament.uk/business/new... #DUABill #dataprotection #digitalID #smartdata etc.

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UK Government press release: a new public procurement regime is now in force www.gov.uk/government/n... Find a Tender www.find-tender.service.gov.uk Bulk data (XML) www.data.gov.uk/search?q=%22... (not signposted from the platform, afaics) #publicprocurement #opengov #opencontracts #opendata

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Addled nonsense from Andrew Lloyd Webber and son. There are no Government measures related to AI training in the #DUABill. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Data (Use and Access) Bill docs bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/p... #AIpolicy #IPlaw #genAI

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All the book publishers and shockingly many authors hated Google Books. Especially the non-US folks, who wanted to throw it into the sun. They were wrong. People and institutions gripped by moral and technopanics aren’t reliable sources of policy info.

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Copyright & AI: The Case for a Pro-Growth Approach ukdayone.org/briefings/co... From @ukdayone.bsky.social, making the case for a broad text and data mining exception to copyright (Option 2 in the UK Government's consultation, which closes today). #AIpolicy #IPlaw #genAI #openweb

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Still not sure what's going on with ONS's UPRN datasets, ostensibly published every six weeks geoportal.statistics.gov.uk No ONSUD since Nov. A January NSUL has been published but isn't linked as the "latest" edition. "Golden thread" of the UK addressing system … 🤔 #UPRNs #openaddresses #opendata

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Why we're decommissioning PublishMyData and where to get the data afterwards onsdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/24/w... post from ONS PublishMyData beta.gss-data.org.uk/datasets (UK) #govtech #opendata #datadiscovery

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UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Meh. These plans were always implausible and probably would've evaporated irrespective of Trump rhetoric. #AIpolicy #techpolicy

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UK farmland at risk under system using 1940s data www.cpre.org.uk/news/uk-farm... from CPRE Land use and the Agricultural Land Classification www.cpre.org.uk/resources/la... report by Ellie Brodie Consultation on #landuse in England www.gov.uk/government/n... #soildata #foodsecurity #opendata

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UK Labour 'ignore SNP two-child cap data request for two months' www.thenational.scot/news/2495605... Letter to DWP minister Liz Kendall MP from Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP, referencing data request www.gov.scot/binaries/con... #FOI #UKpoverty #twochildcap #datasharing

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Good to see some pro-TDM-exemptions arguments spelled out here. Much of the UK conversation about genAI and copyright fails to consider the power and market dynamics that mean copyright creep (like opt in) could favour big tech and big media, embedding monopolies and worker exploitation.

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"Utterly delusional" does not even come close. archive.ph/OVHMg

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Home Office contractor collected data on UK citizens while checking migrants' finances www.theguardian.com/technology/2... (UK) #dataprotection #databreaches #outsourcing

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UK-wide parking app may be out of road after government funding withdrawn www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f... National Parking Platform (NPP) npp.org.uk Answer to recent written question questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... #govtech #publicprocurement

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AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone – Here's What to Do Instead www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... post by Tori Noble via @eff.org #AIpolicy #IPlaw #fairuse #genAI #openweb

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Enjoy my newest listed building blog… yes really! #MHCLG #Planning mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/20/b...

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Incorrect asbestos data reinforces the need for robust information management www.bimplus.co.uk/incorrect-as... Housing Ombudsman report www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/2024/02/15/o... (England) #UKhousing #socialhousing #asbestos #dataquality

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Great news that DEFRA might finally open up data on soils in England. It sounds niche but it's super-important for everything from restoring peat bogs to protecting most fertile agricultural land. I first wrote to DEFRA about doing this in 2016... 😮‍💨 bsky.app/profile/owen...

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@guyshrubsole.bsky.social FYI, looks promising … bsky.app/profile/owen...

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Contract notice – Open Access LandIS Portal www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/00550... Defra has initiated a £6 million procurement to "open up" access to the National Soil Map and other key soil datasets held by Cranfield Uni. #Opendata?? #landuse #agritech #geospatial HT @mikerose.co.uk

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UK electoral administrators call for review of all existing electoral law localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/3... AEA report www.aea-elections.co.uk/blueprint-fo... Among other things, the report calls for an increase in fees charged to Experian et al for data from the full electoral register.

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The UK's Cabinet Office tried to resist disclosure of copies of blank ministerial declaration of interest forms. Very on-brand for CO. Post by Jon Baines informationrightsandwrongs.com/2025/02/19/t... + FTT decision caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukftt/grc/20... #FOI #opengov #opendata

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Single patient record data will be available to researchers by default www.digitalhealth.net/2025/02/sing... (England) #10YearHealthPlan #NHSdata #healthdata #patientdata #dataprotection #datasharing

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New post: what public datasets will have high impact on AI in the UK? peterkwells.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Natural England clears clouds with machine learning www.computerweekly.com/news/3666190... Algorithmic transparency record for NE's Living England programme www.gov.uk/algorithmic-... A longstanding #opendata success story, recast to fit the Government's AI narrative. #geospatial #biodiversity

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UK Government set to appoint supplier to run Fuel Finder service forecourttrader.co.uk/latest-news/... Supplier opportunity – Fuel Finder Service www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/00516... Context www.gov.uk/government/c... #roadfuel #fuelprices #energydata #smartdata #opendata

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I've now published geocoded versions of the Council Tax address datasets released by Birmingham and Lichfield councils last month www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad... (UK) #FOI #geospatial #openaddresses #opendata

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This new decision from the Information Rights Tribunal may be of interest to anybody trying to unlock mapping data held by public bodies in the UK: Stephen Roberts v The Information Commissioner caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukftt/grc/20... #FOI /EIRs #localgov #geospatial #opendata -relevant

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Clustering similar local authorities and statistical nearest neighbours in the UK, 2025 www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula... useful ad hoc release from ONS Methodology article www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula... #localgov #opendata

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Ministers 'mission-washing' spending plans in effort to avoid cuts www.theguardian.com/politics/202... (UK) Digitising death records will leave grieving relatives with more time to grow the economy 👍

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Open letter to DSIT: RSI and partners call on UK Government to scrap new police data powers www.rightsandsecurity.org/impact/entry... from @rightssecurityintl.bsky.social Data (Use and Access) Bill bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/p... #DUABill #dataprotection #surveillance #spycops #policepowers

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Data (Use and Access) Bill: call for evidence www.parliament.uk/business/new... (UK) The Public Bill Committee on #DUABill will meet for the first time on Tues 4 March 2025 and will report by Tues 18 March. Bill docs bills.parliament.uk/bills/3825/p... #dataprotection #digitalID #smartdata etc.

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