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From: "Tim Rodgers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:35 PM
Subject: [data-protection] Directors telephone numbers
> As a local authority we have directors of service who have PAs.
> Director's
> are contacted usually through their PA's through a specific number i.e.
> 2000. The director themselves have a direct line - say 2001 - but this is
> not common knowledge outside of the organisation.
>
> We now have an FOI request asking for the direct numbers of the directors.
> To be honest it's likely that, in practice, these are camped on to their
> PA's but that is besides the point.
>
> A phone number doesn't identify someone as such so I don't think we can
> claim it as personal information, however could we claim that revealing
> this number would be prejudicial to our business (e.g. Section 36) in
> managing the workload of our directors?
>
I suggest that you post this to the JISC FOI list as that is used to
discussing such questions.
Nick Landau
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