Funny you saying that, we had one from a member of the public and she
replied asking for a review from an NHS e-mail address and I was asked
by the senior officer who would deal with the review if we should report
her for personal use of her computer....We soon reviewed it.
D
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Landau
Sent: 28 June 2006 12:16
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Anonymity when making FOI requests of your own organisation
I will speak about the Freedom of Information Act. When at a Primary
Care
Trust, I had a request from someone who had made a request about our
policy
on a subject in a sensitive area.
I showed the request to a colleague and she immediately said that she
knew
him as working for the local Council - we had a partnership with the
local
Council so that there were mixed teams of council and NHS staff.
Immediately I changed all my procedures so that very few people would
know
the identity of requesters. I kept all correspondence concerning
requests
under lock and key - where they weren't on the computer.
Of course, the person would have been better advised to use an alias.
Are we saying that because a person lives and works in the same area
that
they don't have the same rights as other members of the public?
Nick Landau
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From: "Hawley, Graeme" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Anonymity when making FOI requests of
your
own organisation
Whilst acknowledging that threads can develop over time, the opening
entry in this thread was about anonymity within a person's own
organization, and whether it was fair processing to give out the name of
an internal applicant to another member of staff in the same
organization. The purpose of having the name and contact details is to
supply the applicant with the information that they have requested. If
a member of the organization's management wants to know who in the
organization is making requests, does it compromise the DP rights of the
applicant to give that manager their name. I would suggest it does, but
others have suggested that the management have a right to know.
Who wins?
Graeme
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