Alaveteli GDPR and Search
Better search and redacting capabilities for Alaveteli FOI request portal
Alaveteli is an open source platform deployed in 20+ countries that helps citizens make Freedom of Information requests and publishes them and the responses online. Access to Information laws are powerful tools by which citizens, journalists, and civil society organisations can obtain information to scrutinise government. Such legislation is an important prerequisite for accountability and bottom up participation, making it one of the cornerstones of a healthy democracy.
Alaveteli’s architecture was designed long before the introduction of GDPR. This makes it challenging to balance public access to information with protection of citizens' individual data rights. The project aims to redesign and replace Alaveteli’s antiquated search architecture and technology and implement key missing functionality to effectively locate and, when appropriate, remove personally identifiable information to ensure GDPR compliance.
- The project's own website: https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/
Run by Ma Dada (Open Knowledge F. France)
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
