From fed7b7ebbece65e3247f8be7da11df90c74e2084 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Landauer
WhatDoTheyKnow is a permanent, public archive of Freedom of +
<%= site_name %> is a permanent, public archive of Freedom of
Information requests. Even though you may not find the response to
a request useful any more, it may be of interest to others. For this
reason, we will not delete requests.
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From aebfa2e30408ebff5b45177472913097bed6afa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Landauer We will not disclose your email address to anyone unless we are obliged to by law,
or you ask us to. This includes the public authority that you are sending a
request to. They only get to see an email address
-@whatdotheyknow.com which is specific to that request.
If you send a message to another user on the site, then it will reveal your email address to them. You will be told that this is going to happen.
We will not disclose your email address to anyone unless we are obliged to by law, or you ask us to. This includes the public authority that you are sending a -request to. They only get to see an email address -@<%= MySociety::Config.get('INCOMING_EMAIL_DOMAIN') %> which is specific to that request.
+request to. They only get to see an email address +@<%= MySociety::Config.get('INCOMING_EMAIL_DOMAIN', 'localhost') %> which is specific to that request.If you send a message to another user on the site, then it will reveal your email address to them. You will be told that this is going to happen.
By law, you must use your real name for the request to be a valid Freedom of Information request. See the next question for alternatives if you do not want @@ -67,14 +67,14 @@ Information Commissioner later about the handling of your request.
If a public authority asks you for your full, physical address, reply to them saying -that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence", -and that the email address you are using is sufficient. +that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence", +and that the email address you are using is sufficient.
The Ministry of Justice has guidance on this – "As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are -transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable +transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable ... If a request is received by email and no postal address is given, the email address should be treated as the return address."
-As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's +
As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's Hints for Practitioners say "Any correspondence could include a request for information. If it is written (this includes e-mail), legible, gives the name of the applicant, an address for reply (which could be electronic), and includes a description of the information required, then it will fall within the scope of the legislation."
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ see the section on pseudonyms.If you see any personal information about you on the site which you'd like us to remove or hide, then please let us know. @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ which outweighs the public interest, and must demonstrate that efforts have been made to conceal the name on the organisation's own website.
For all other requests we apply a public interest test to decide
-whether information should be removed.
- Section 32
+whether information should be removed.
+ Section 32
of the Data Protection Act 1998 permits us to do this, as the material we
publish is journalistic. We cannot easily edit many types of attachments (such
as PDFs, or Microsoft Word or Excel files), so we will usually ask
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From 668042256ed6e1a39e29147c8ab4ba2746fe2e38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Landauer We will not disclose your email address to anyone unless we are obliged to by law,
or you ask us to. This includes the public authority that you are sending a
request to. They only get to see an email address
-@<%= MySociety::Config.get('INCOMING_EMAIL_DOMAIN', 'localhost') %> which is specific to that request.
If you send a message to another user on the site, then it will reveal your email address to them. You will be told that this is going to happen.