Failure to respond to news of child sex exploitation
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
For several months I have been providing you with information relating to child sex exploitation.
You have been shown that EVERY organisation and institution with purview has failed to provide information about child sex exploitation, as required by law.
Please provide details of what you have done with this information.
Please provide copies of all related communications by the bbc in response to my emails.
Yours faithfully,
p cialfi
Dear P Cialfi,
Thank you for your request, as set out in your correspondence below.
We are treating your request as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will deal with your request as promptly as possible, and at the latest within 20 working days of receipt. If you have any queries about your request, please contact us at the email address [BBC request email], quoting your reference number which is the subject line of this email.
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights Compliance | BBC Legal
First Floor, Wogan House, 99 Great Portland Street, London W1W 7NY
Email: [email address] | [email address]
Dear P Cialfi,
Please find attached our response to your request for information,
reference RFI20220899.
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights, BBC Legal
BC2A4, Broadcast Centre
201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of British Broadcasting Corporation's handling of my FOI request 'Failure to respond to news of child sex exploitation'.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Via whatdotheyknow 6 September 2022
[email address]
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...
You have today replied to my request for information dated 8 August 2022 with a refusal, falsely claiming:
“This is not a request for recorded information, and we are not required to create new information to respond to a request, or give a judgement or opinion that is not already recorded.”
However, my request included:
“Please provide details of what you have done with this information.
Please provide copies of all related communications by the bbc in response to my emails.”
It is rational, illogical and perverse, section 77 of the FoIA notwithstanding, to claim that I have not asked for recorded information when my request specifically requested recorded information.
Section 10 of the FoIA requires that you respond promptly, and it does not take 20 working days to reject a request.
You are now being reported directly to the Information Commissioner.
Given that the subject concerns child sex exploitation, your response is alarming.
Please review your response.
The review should be carried out by someone higher in rank in your organisation and not associated in any way with the subject matter.
- - - - - - - -
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...
Yours faithfully,
p cialfi
Dear P Cialfi,
Thank you for your email. Please be advised that we will handle your query
below as a request for internal review of our response to your FOI
request.
We will deal with your request as promptly as possible. We aim to respond
within 20 working days of receipt but please note that public authorities
can take up to 40 working days for complex reviews. If you have any
queries about your request for internal review, please contact us at the
email address [1][BBC request email], quoting your reference number
IR2022062.
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights, BBC Legal
BC2A4, Broadcast Centre
201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP
Dear P Cialfi,
Further to our previous email below, please be advised that we are
treating your internal review as a complex request, and will require up to
an additional 20 working days in order to provide our response.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights, BBC Legal
Address: First Floor | Wogan House | 99 Great Portland Street | London |
W1W 7NY
From: FOI Enquiries
Sent: 07 September 2022 16:20
To: p cialfi <[FOI #885304 email]>
Subject: IR2022062 Internal review request acknowledgement
Dear P Cialfi,
Thank you for your email. Please be advised that we will handle your query
below as a request for internal review of our response to your FOI
request.
We will deal with your request as promptly as possible. We aim to respond
within 20 working days of receipt but please note that public authorities
can take up to 40 working days for complex reviews. If you have any
queries about your request for internal review, please contact us at the
email address [1][BBC request email], quoting your reference number
IR2022062.
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights, BBC Legal
BC2A4, Broadcast Centre
201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP
Dear FOI Enquiries,
Thank you for your notice that you are treating my request as 'complex' and requesting extra time for processing.
Yours sincerely,
p cialfi
Dear P Cialfi
I refer to your request for a FOIA internal review below (IR2022062).
Please see attached the BBC's internal review decision.
Kind regards
Information Rights
BBC Legal
First Floor, Wogan House
99 Great Portland Street
London, W1W 7NY
Dear FOI Enquiries,
2 November 2022
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...
Thank you for sending the review upholding the original response of 'no information held'.
Because the BBC email address is generic, there is no possibility of me knowing which BBC departments or personnel handled the information about child sex exploitation.
The time-line is given by the dates of the emails to the BBC and the contents of those emails.
My request of 8 August 2022 was:
“For several months I have been providing you with information relating to child sex
exploitation.
You have been shown that EVERY organisation and institution with purview has failed
to provide information about child sex exploitation, as required by law.
Please provide details of what you have done with this information.
Please provide copies of all related communications by the bbc in response to my
emails.”
The response of the BBC demonstrates, in my opinion, that throughout this whole process where the BBC has been contemporaneously informed of EVERY authority that fails to appropriately answer to questions related to child sex exploitation, the BBC has done absolutely nothing.
This has shocked me.
Whilst I thank you for your review, before this case can be closed, I respectfully ask that you provide the metadata associated with my request.
Yours sincerely,
p cialfi
p cialfi left an annotation ()
This email was sent to the Board ( of governors ? ) of the BBC.
Below is the BBC Board acknowledgement of receipt.
Are the barriers that are set up by EVERY authority blocking disclosures relating to child sex exploitation being centrally coordinated ?
From: iPages no-reply <ipages-noreply@bbc.co.uk>
To: "p.cialfi@yahoo.com" <p.cialfi@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2022 at 00:26:16 GMT
Subject: Boardmail: cover up of child sex exploitation
This is an automatically generated confirmation email to p.cialfi@yahoo.com, please don't reply to this address.
The message is as follows:
Subject: cover up of child sex exploitation
Name: p. cialfi
Your message: For several months the BBC, via have your say, has been provided with information about child sex exploitation. The BBC responded to my request for information about what the BBC has done with the information that has been provided. The response has been to the effect that the BBC has done absolutely nothing with the information, and could not even confirm whether or not the information has been read. An explanation would be appreciated as to why the BBC appears to have a policy of colluding with the government and its institutions in covering up child sex exploitation. Also, please send details of what will be done with the information.
Dear P Cialfi,
The BBC has received your Right of Access request under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). The reference number for your request is SAR-2022-119.
Can you advise whether you have a non-public email address which you can provide to us so that we can correspond further with you regarding your Subject Access Request?
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights, BBC Legal
Wogan House
99 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 7NY
Dear BBC Data Protection Enquiries,
pc to bbc re cover-up of child sex exploitation 041122
4 November 2022
Thank you for your reply, in which you want to continue this case through private email.
The information required relates solely to the issues in this public arena.
Therefore there is no personal information that can not be disclosed here, as, by being in the public domain, I waive all rights of anonymity.
Accordingly, you will be in compliance with the GDPR should you post any material that identifies me.
In this circumstance it would be inappropriate to even attempt to prevent this issue from reaching the public domain by any means, including trying to conduct this case through private emails.
Yours sincerely,
p cialfi
Thanks for contacting the BBC�s Information Rights team. This is to confirm we have received your correspondence.
This inbox can only respond to you about data protection matters. If you contacted us about something else we have information online about how the BBC handles your information, help using your BBC Account, the BBC iPlayer or BBC Sounds, general information About the BBC and how to make general enquires, comments or complaints.
If you have made a request to the BBC about your data rights or raised a new data protection concern, it will be assigned to one of the team. We will be in touch within 5 working days, and also if we need more information or identification to help us answer your request.
If your correspondence is about an existing case, we will add it to your case file and review.
If you are a BBC employee seeking data protection advice, a member of the Information Rights team will be in touch shortly.
This email address does not respond to copied correspondence.
Yours sincerely,
BBC Information Rights
BC2 A5, Broadcast Centre
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TP, UK
Thanks for contacting the BBC’s Information Rights team. This is to
confirm we have received your correspondence.
This inbox can only respond to you about data protection matters. If you
contacted us about something else we have information online about how the
[1]BBC handles your information, help using your [2]BBC Account, the
[3]BBC iPlayer or [4]BBC Sounds, general information [5]About the BBC and
how to make [6]general enquires, comments or complaints.
If you have made a request to the BBC about your data rights or raised a
new data protection concern, it will be assigned to one of the team. We
will be in touch within 5 working days, and also if we need more
information or identification to help us answer your request.
If your correspondence is about an existing case, we will add it to your
case file and review.
If you are a BBC employee seeking data protection advice, a member of the
Information Rights team will be in touch shortly.
This email address does not respond to copied correspondence.
Yours sincerely,
BBC Information Rights
BC2 A5, Broadcast Centre
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TP, UK
[7]cid:image001.gif@01D3F1D6.01393CA0
Diolch i chi am gysylltu gyda thim Hawliau Gwybodaeth y BBC. Mae’r nodyn
yma yn cadarnhau ein bod wedi derbyn eich gohebiaeth.
Byddwn yn ymateb i faterion sydd yn ymwneud â gwarchod data yn unig. Os
ydych wedi cysylltu gyda ni am unrhyw beth arall, mae gwybodaeth arlein ar
sut mae’r [8]BBC yn delio â’ch gwybodaeth, cymorth i ddefnyddio eich
[9]cyfrif BBC, [10]BBC iPlayer neu [11]BBC Sounds, [12]gwybodaeth
gyffredinol am y BBC a sut i wneud [13]ymholiad, cwyn neu sylw.
Os ydych wedi gwneud cais i’r BBC am eich hawliau gwybodaeth neu wedi codi
pryder am warchod data, bydd yn cael ei aseinio i aelod o’r tim. Byddwn
mewn cysylltiad â chi o fewn 2-5 diwrnod gwaith, a hefyd os byddwn angen
mwy o wybodaeth i ddelio â’ch cais.
Os yw eich gohebiaeth yn ymwneud ag achos sydd eisioes yn bodoli, byddwn
yn ei ychwanegu at ffeil yr achos ac yn ei adolygu.
Os ydych yn aelod o staff y BBC ac eisiau cyngor am warchod data, bydd
aelod o’r tim Hawliau Gwybodaeth mewn cysylltiad â chi yn fuan.
Nid yw’r cyfeiriad ebost yma yn ymateb i ohebiaeth a gopiwyd.
Yn gywir
Hawliau Gwybodaeth y BBC
BC2 A5, y Ganolfan Ddarlledu
201 Wood Lane
Llundain
W12 7TP
[14]cid:image001.gif@01D3F1D6.01393CA0
References
Visible links
1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/privacy/
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/account/
3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help
4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05tzdy8
5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/contact
8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/privacy/
9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/account/
10. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
11. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds
12. https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc
13. http://www.bbc.co.uk/contact
Dear P Cialfi,
Thank you for confirming you are happy for us to communicate with you about your SAR to this email address knowing that any response or potential disclosure will be made public.
The BBC has received your Right of Access request under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). The reference number for your request is SAR-2022-119.
We will deal with your request as promptly as possible, and usually within one month of the date we receive your request.
In some circumstances it may be necessary to extend the one month time period by a further two months (i.e. three months in total) where we determine your request is complex, applying ICO Guidance. Should this be the case we will notify you and explain the reasons for this.
If we need to ask you to clarify your request, then we are also entitled to “pause” the time limits referred to above until we have received your clarification.
In order for us to process your request we require some additional information to ensure we have fully understood your request. Therefore please could you clarify if you are seeking a copy of your personal data concerning your recent internal review (IR2022062)?
If we receive no response within one month of the date of this email we will close your request.
Please be advised that we won’t be providing copies of information which have already been sent to or from you unless you contact us informing us you wish for this information to be included.
If you have any queries about your request, please contact us at the above address.
Privacy notice
You’re providing information that includes your name, email address and details of the data the BBC processes. This is so we can respond to your request and to fulfil our obligations under data protection legislation.
The information you give us will only be used to respond to your request. However, we will need to share your information with relevant employees and divisions within the BBC so that we can respond to your request. We may also need to share your information with companies that process data on our behalf, or because the law requires us to.
We’ll keep the information you provide for six years. After that, we will consider destroying it in line with the BBC’s Records Management Policy.
You can read more about how we process your data in our Privacy and Cookies Policy https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/privac...
Yours sincerely,
Information Rights, BBC Legal
Wogan House
99 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 7NY
We work to defend the right to FOI for everyone
Help us protect your right to hold public authorities to account. Donate and support our work.
Donate Now
p cialfi left an annotation ()
IRRATIONAL