Monitoring social media

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Dear Cabinet Office,

Can you provide details of the contract agreed with five companies regarding the monitoring of social media? Specifically:

1) Who the contracts have been awarded to.
2) What keywords and topics they have been advised to monitor.

Yours faithfully,

Ian Clark

FOI Team Mailbox, Cabinet Office

Dear Mr Clark

Thank you for your recent FOI request. Before we can proceed with your
inquiry we require some clarification. 

If you can provide such, we will be able to continue with your request.

Can you please explain/name the contract which you are referring to and
the five companies you mention.

 

If we do not hear from within two months of the date of this email, we
will consider the matter closed.

 

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Dear FOI Team Mailbox,

The contract I am referring to is referred to in the following media report:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015...

The companies awarded contracts are (my mistake there are seven not five):

Gorkana Group Ltd
LexisNexis (Reed Elsevier UK Ltd T/A LexisNexis)
Meltwater (UK) Ltd
Precise Media Monitoring LTD
Press Data Ltd
PRIME Research Ltd
Runtime Collective Ltd

I hope this helps clarify my request.

Yours sincerely,

Ian Clark

FOI Team Mailbox, Cabinet Office

CABINET OFFICE REFERENCE:  FOI321381

Dear IAN CLARK

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