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Peter Jones made this Freedom of Information request to British Broadcasting Corporation
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From: Peter Jones
8 July 2011
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
I am making this request for information under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I am aware that employees of the BBC and/or TV Licensing regularly
make posts on web community sites (e.g. forums frequented by
members of the public) seeking to inform members of the public
about TV licence legislation and procedures. I am further aware
that the BBC and/or TV Licensing regularly monitor third-party
websites critical of the way the BBC and/or TV Licensing conduct
their business.
The BBC and/or TV Licensing would be rightfully concerned if an
unknown entity was posing as one of their employees on a web
community so, in the interests of transparency and e-safety, I am
seeking the disclosure of the following information:
(a) The usernames of any BBC/TV Licensing employees that post on
the following web communities in the course of their official
duties with the BBC/TV Licensing:
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com
http://www.tvlicenceresistance.info/forum
http://tvlicensing.biz/phpBB3
This includes any user who does not openly disclose their
affiliation to the BBC and/or TV Licensing.
(b) Copies of all documents generated by the BBC and/or TV
Licensing since 1st Jan 2010 relating to the following websites:
http://www.tvlicenceresistance.info
http://tvlicensing.biz
http://www.televisionlicence.info
http://watchkeeperslog.blogspot.com
http://www.licencefree.co.uk
http://tv-licensing.blogspot.com
http://www.lime-marmalade.net
I look forward to a candid and complete disclosure, in accordance
with the spirit of the Act.
Yours faithfully,
Peter Jones
From: FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation
11 July 2011
Dear Mr Jones,
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, repeated below, which was received on 8th July.
We shall deal with your request as promptly as possible and, at the
latest, within 20 working days. If you have any queries about your
request please contact us at the address below.
The reference number for your request is RFI20110806.
Kind regards
BBC Information Policy and Compliance
BBC Freedom of Information
Room 2252, White City
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TS, UK
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/foi
Email: [BBC request email]
Tel: 020 8008 2883
Fax: 020 8008 2398
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From: FOI Enquiries
British Broadcasting Corporation
8 August 2011
Dear Mr Jones
Please find attached the response to your request for information,
reference RFI20110806.
Please accept our apologies for the short delay in issuing your response.
<<RFI20110806 - Jones - final response.pdf>>
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Mark left an annotation ( 3 April 2012)
Good request - maybe go back with an expanded scope (ie. agencies employed to do this work), and expand it to internal web stats ie. visits from BBC/"TVL" domains to those sites, even if not formally sanctioned.
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Peter Jones left an annotation (10 August 2011)
If I was suspicious I could think they have again interpreted my request to exclude disclosing embarrassing material.
I know from my own experience that they frequently visit our site directly, so they must have some record of the URL at least.
For more information: http://tv-licensing.blogspot.com
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