China bans ICOs for being full of fraud and pyramid schemes
BY STAN SCHROEDER From Mashable The ICO — Initial Coin Offering — has recently become a very popular way to fund a startup, as it adheres to few rules requiring little to no regulative oversight. Companies such as Tezos and…
The Editor Speaks: Immigration are a law unto themselves
The Immigration Department are very lucky they won their case of not being forced to provide an Internal Review to a private company for a) the reasons for the fine they imposed on the company and b) the written reasons…
Acting Cayman Islands Information Commissioner releases Hearing Decision involving Department of Immigration.
ICO releases Hearing Decision 57 involving The Department of Immigration. In May 2016 an Applicant requested access to records relating to a fine imposed on an employer by the Department of Immigration. Some records were disclosed, but a ruling/advice provided…
What you don’t know about Bitcoin can hurt you
BY STAN SCHROEDER From Mashable Money is pretty simple nowadays: A piece of paper or a digital asset that you can exchange for goods and services. Someone else takes care of all the fine print. Some kind of central authority…
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Digital Developers Fund’s Initial Coin Offering (ICO) starts Monday, July 10th
From Live Bitcoin News DDF will raise investment funds using an Ethereum-based token sale. In the upcoming token sale, DDF is targeting sale proceeds as high as 247,500 ETH with a cap of 247,500,000 DDF Tokens. The ICO will commence…
ICO releases Hearing Decision 54 involving Her Majesty’s Cayman Islands Prison Service
In November 2016 an Applicant requested access to a workplace investigation report about her which was written in response to a complaint by an inmate. The matter was appealed to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). After an attempt was made…
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Cayman Islands Election Candidates invited to meet with Acting Information Commissioner
The Acting Information Commissioner, Mr. Jan Liebaers, has issued an invitation to all candidates in the upcoming election to meet with him and/or members of his staff to discuss the principles and operation of the Freedom of Information Law (2015…
Information Commissioner re-evaluates public authority websites
As the internet has quickly become one of the first places people in the Cayman Islands look for information about their government, the Information Commissioner’s Office has conducted an investigation of the content and accessibility of public sector websites as…
Cayman Islands Information Commissioner completes own-motion investigation into the FOI tracking system
Use of the central tracking system for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests has improved significantly since 2014, but the system is still not being used by all public authorities. In its latest own-motion compliance investigation, the Information Commissioner’s Office…
Cayman Islands Freedom of Information Annual Statistics
As part of the annual Right to Know Week events, the Information Commissioner’s Office has published the 2016 Annual Statistics Report on Freedom of Information. The Report is based on requests registered and tracked in the central FOI tracking system…
