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"Confidential" documents posted on the web by Ofcom
Michael McCarthy made this Freedom of Information request to Office of Communications
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From: Michael McCarthy
19 June 2010
Dear Office of Communications,
I would like to know why Ofcom posts on the WhatDoTheyKnow website,
for all the world to see, documents which bear at their head the
stamp CONFIDENTIAL. In what sense can they possibly be considered
confidential after having been designedly placed in the public
domain by Ofcom?
What would anyone who has read such documents need to do to be
deemed to have compromised this chimerical confidentiality in such
a way as to incur legal jeopardy or even to merit the disapproval
of right-thinking people?
Yours faithfully,
Michael McCarthy
From: Michael McCarthy
20 July 2010
Dear Office of Communications,
I write to point out that Ofcom was legally required to respond to
my request "Confidential documents posted on the web by Ofcom" by
19 July 2010.
Yours &c.,
Michael McCarthy
From: Information Requests
Office of Communications
20 July 2010
Dear Mr McCarthy
I apologise that you have not received a response to your query. In your email of 19 June 2010 you asked why you received correspondence headed with the word 'Confidential'. It appears that this was included in our response to you in error, and I apologise for any confusion this may have caused. Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention.
Yours sincerely
Jonathan Ayres
:: Jonathan Ayres
Interim Compliance Manager
[email address]
:: Ofcom
Riverside House
2a Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA
020 7981 3000
www.ofcom.org.uk
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