Serious Crime Act 2007 section 71 Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud
Home Office,
Direct Communications Unit,
2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF,
Switchboard 020 7035 4848 Fax: 020 7035 4745 Textphone: 020 7035 4742,
E-mail: [email address] Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
via : http://www.whatdotheyknow.com
Friday 12th September 2008
Dear Sirs,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please disclose:
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The latest version or draft of the Statutory Code of Practice which "The Secretary of State must prepare, and keep under review" according to the
Serious Crime Act 2008 section 71 Code of practice for disclosure of information to prevent fraud
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2007ukpg...
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Please provide the information, ideally by publishing it on your public world wide website, or alternatively by email.
Ideally this should *not* be in the form of a "copy and paste" locked Adobe .pdf file, or similar, attachment.
In the unlikely event that this information is not already
available in a standard electronic format, then please explain the reasons why, when you provide the information in another format.
If you are proposing to make a charge for providing the
information requested, please provide full details in advance, together with an explanation of any proposed charge.
If you decide to withhold any of the information requested, you should clearly explain why you have done so in your response, by reference to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 legislation.
If your decision to withhold is based upon an evaluation of the Public Interest, for a Qualified Exemption, then you should clearly explain which public interest(s) you have considered, and why you have decided that the public interest in maintaining the Exemption(s) outweighs the public interest in releasing the information.
If you decide to conduct a Balance of Public Interest
evaluation, you need to estimate any additional time which might be required, and to inform me of this in your Substantive Reply, within the mandatory statutory limit of 20 working days for you to respond to this Freedom of Information Act request.
Under Section 16 the Freedom of Information Act, you have a duty to provide help and advice, as to how this current request may need to be modified, if necessary.
I look forward to receiving the information requested as soon as possible, and in any event, within the statutory 20 working days from receipt of this email i.e. no later than Monday 13th October 2008
Yours Sincerely,
[pseudonym]
[pseudonymous email address]
N.B. My Name and Address may be available on request, but neither of these are required at this stage under the Freedom of Information Act, according to Guidance and legally binding Decision Notices from the Information Commissioner's Office.
Reference : T20452/8
Thank you for your e-mail enquiry of 12/09/2008 1:20:09 PM
A reply is attached.
Copy of attachment to follow by email.
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recorded for legal purposes.
Watching Them, Watching Us left an annotation ()
Incredibly, there is no specific mention of Encryption in the supposed safeguards of our sensitive personal data under this statutory Code of Practice.
See
http://spyblog.org.uk/2008/10/home-offic...
for more comments.
Francis Irving left an annotation ()
An article on ZDNet about this request: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,10000...
Communication Directorate
Direct Communications Unit
1st Floor Peel Building
2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF
Switchboard 020 7035 4848
E-mail [email address] [1]www.homeoffice.gov.uk
12^th January 2009
Dear Sir/Madam,
In 2007, the Home Office received more than 20,000 letters and e-mails
from the public.
Our aim is to provide clear, accurate and prompt responses to your queries
and we need your help to ensure we are providing a good level of service.
In order to make improvements to the service we provide, we need to know
what you thought about how we answered your correspondence and what you
think we could do better. Please note that we are interested in your views
on how we answered your correspondence, not on the actual Home Office
policy.
We have designed an online survey that will give us the feedback we need.
It should take around 10 minutes to complete and is your chance to
influence how the Home Office communicates with you in the future.
You will receive an e-mail from [2][email address] within the next
24 hours. This will provide you with a unique ID number and password so
that you can complete the survey on-line. You will need to do this by 9
February 2009 so the responses can be collated by FDS International Ltd,
an independent research company, who will forward the results to the Home
Office for action.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Signed
Ian Goswell
Communication Directorate
Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or
recorded for legal purposes.
References
Visible links
1. http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/
2. mailto:[email address]
Dear Sir/ Madam,
You should have received an email from the Home Office within the last 24
hours inviting you to take part in a short online survey.
We are FDS, an independent market research agency which has been
commissioned by the Home Office to carry out the survey. If you have any
questions about it, please do not hesitate to contact myself, Brian Westra
at FDS on 020 7272 7766.
To begin the survey, please click on the link below.
[1]http://www.munrowebsurveys.co.uk/mrIWeb/...
Your ID and password will be entered automatically. In certain
circumstances, you may be asked for your ID and password. They are:-
Your ID:- 2185
[password]
I would like to thank you in advance for taking part in this survey.
Please note that the deadline for completion is Monday 9th February 2009.
Yours sincerely
Brian Westra
Watching Them, Watching Us left an annotation ()
The Home Office obviously have not noticed, or do not care, that the WhatDoTheyKnow.com email address actually represents several different FOIA request correspondents.
Is getting a sub-contractor to send a "market research" survey by email to "Home Office correspondents", including FOIA requesters, a good idea ?
Is including a personalised tracking user name and password legitimate or sneaky ? Why is this necessary for bulk aggregate statistics ?
How can the Home Office trust that any replies they get to this survey, are actually from genuine FOIA request correspondents, now that the User Name and Password have been published here on WhatDoTheyKnow.com (and indexed by search engines) ?
Dear CTS Public enquiry account 1,
FAO: Ian Goswell, Communication Directorate
The Home Office obviously have not noticed, or do not care, that the WhatDoTheyKnow.com email address actually represents several different FOIA request correspondents.
Is getting a sub-contractor to send a "market research" survey by email to "Home Office correspondents", including FOIA requesters, a good idea ?
How is sneakily including a personalised tracking ID and Password legitimate ? Why is this necessary for bulk aggregate statistics for a survey ?
How can the Home Office trust that any replies they get to this survey, are actually from genuine FOIA request correspondents, now that the survey logon ID and Password have been published here on WhatDoTheyKnow.com (and indexed by search engines) ?
Yours sincerely,
Watching Them, Watching Us
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Watching Them, Watching Us left an annotation ()
For the background to this request, see
The next Home Office data security and privacy disaster ? Sharing all our financial details with private sector "specified anti-fraud organisations"
http://spyblog.org.uk/2008/09/the-next-h...