2 April 2018
By email to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Mr Parker
I refer to your Freedom of Information request received on 14 March 2018 about internet
filtering.
Details of any exemptions applied are below. Where any information is “not held”, this is
explained below. Those parts of the University’s response (together with the details of how
to ask the University to review the management of your request, or thereafter to seek a
review by the Scottish Information Commissioner, should you wish to do so – please see
below) constitutes the notice in writing that the information specified is not held by the
University which is required under section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act
2002 (“FOISA”).
Your enquiry and the University’s response.
Please see appendix.
This concludes the University’s response.
Your right to seek a review of how your information request was managed
If you are not satisfied with our response or our reasoning set out above, you have 40
working days in which to require a review of our decision. Any such request should be put in
writing and should be sent to the University Secretary, Abertay University, at the address
provided below. The request should:
(a) detail your request for a review of our decision to be undertaken
(b) describe the nature of your original request
(c) explain the reasons why you are dissatisfied with our response
University Secretary
Abertay University
Bell Street
Dundee
DD1 1HD
Tel (01382) 308016
E-mail: x.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xx.xx
If you remain dissatisfied with how your request for information has been dealt with, you also
have the right, in terms of section 47 of FOISA, and within 6 months, to apply to the Scottish
Information Commissioner for a decision as to whether we have handled your request
properly.
Information relating to your right to seek review is available from the Scottish Information
Commissioner's website:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info
or by contacting the Scottish Information Commissioner's Office at the following address:
Scottish Information Commissioner,
Kinburn Castle,
Doubledykes Road, St Andrews,
Fife KY16 9DS
Telephone: 01334 464610
Fax: 01334 464611
E-mail: mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Website: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info
Or via the SIC’s online appeals service:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Unhappywiththeresponse/AppealingtoCommi
ssioner.aspx
If you are unhappy with the Commissioner’s decision, you also have the right to appeal
further to the Court of Session, on a point of law only, under section 56 of FOISA. Please
refer to the Commissioner’s website (details above) for further information about your right of
appeal to the Court of Session.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Processing
Academic Registry
Abertay University
Abertay University is a registered Scottish charity, no. SC016040
Appendix
I am writing as a research volunteer at the Open Rights Group. We are conducting a study to
better understand filtering and blocking of websites on the public estate, to understand what
content and sites are inaccessible and why.
We would like to know, in relation to your publicly accessible Internet networks, or Internet
networks for your clients:
1. The categories of content blocked or filtered, e.g.:
(a) Security or Malware
Yes, we block for both these reasons.
(b) Content types, eg adult, alcohol etc
Nudity, Adult content, Sex, P2P file sharing, elevated exposure, emerging threats,
suspicious content, Gambling, Proxy avoidance, Intolerance, parked domains,
advertisements, Malicious, spyware, phishing, fraud, keyloggers, botnets, malware, C&C,
compromised, potentially unwanted software, private IP addresses.
2. Statistics relating to the requests blocked or filtered, eg how many site requests filtered or
blocked per category
Please refer to accompanying pdf.
3. Monitoring requirements you have for users, eg if you record or may record their Internet
usage
The University logs up to 90-days of Internet traffic usage.
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