Social Media Specialists
Dear General Medical Council,
Please provide all emails sent by social media specialists which provide social listening information for the past 3 months.
If a cost exemption is reached, please provide the last 2 months.
Yours faithfully,
Seymour Borealis
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Dear General Medical Council,
I have not received a further response since your automated bot replied. Please, do the needful.
Yours faithfully,
Seymour Borealis
Dear Seymour Borealis,
Your information request - IR1-4794725085
Thank you for your original email dated 5^th February 2025. I am sorry for
the delay in acknowledging your request, this is due to an administrative
error leading to your request being misplaced.
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2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
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Yours sincerely,
Information Access Team
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester
M3 3AW
From: Seymour Borealis <[FOI #1233901 email]>
Sent: 19 February 2025 18:43
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Social Media Specialists
Dear General Medical Council, I have not received a further response since
your automated bot replied. Please, do the needful. Yours faithfully,
Seymour Borealis -----Original Message----- Thank you for getting in
touch. Please note this is
Dear General Medical Council,
I have not received a further response since your automated bot replied. Please, do the needful.
Yours faithfully,
Seymour Borealis
Dear FOI,
This request is delayed.
Please provide a response.
Yours sincerely,
Seymour Borealis
Dear Seymour
Thank you for your email.
We are very sorry for the delay in providing you with a response.
Please be assured that we have been working on your request and will
provide you with a final response shortly.
Kind Regards
Information Access Team
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester
M3 3AW
From: Seymour Borealis <[1][FOI #1233901 email]>
Sent: 16 March 2025 13:33
To: FOI <[2][email address]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Social Media Specialists
Dear FOI, This request is delayed. Please provide a response. Yours
sincerely, Seymour Borealis -----Original Message----- Dear Seymour
Borealis, Your information request - IR1-4794725085 Thank you for your
original email dated 5^th February
Dear FOI,
This request is delayed.
Please provide a response.
Yours sincerely,
Seymour Borealis
Dear Seymour
We write further to previous correspondence with a response under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
We have searched for the social media monitoring updates sent by social
media specialists over the past three months. Please see the attached
bundle.
You’ll see that some information in the attached bundle has been redacted
because it would breach data protection legislation to give this
information to you. We’ve given details of the exemption under the FOIA
which applies below.
The exemption
Section 40(2), by virtue of section 40(3A)(a) - This exemption applies
where the information is the personal data of a third party and where
releasing the information would breach any of the principles relating to
the processing of personal data listed at Article 5 of the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this instance disclosure would breach the
first principle, which requires the processing of information to be
lawful, fair and transparent. I do not believe that any of the legal bases
for processing listed at Article 6 of the GDPR are met and therefore
giving you the information would be unlawful.
Your right to appeal
If you would like to appeal against this decision, please set out your
reasons in writing to [1][GMC request email]. Please note that we will
only consider appeals received within 40 working days of our response. You
can also appeal to the Information Commissioner, the regulator of the FOIA
and DPA. We can provide more information about this if you need it.
Kind Regards
Information Access Team
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester
M3 3AW
From: FOI
Sent: 17 March 2025 11:54
To: [FOI #1233901 email]
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Social Media Specialists
Dear Seymour
Thank you for your email.
We are very sorry for the delay in providing you with a response.
Please be assured that we have been working on your request and will
provide you with a final response shortly.
Kind Regards
Information Access Team
General Medical Council
3 Hardman Street
Manchester
M3 3AW
From: Seymour Borealis <[2][FOI #1233901 email]>
Sent: 16 March 2025 13:33
To: FOI <[3][email address]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Social Media Specialists
Dear FOI, This request is delayed. Please provide a response. Yours
sincerely, Seymour Borealis -----Original Message----- Dear Seymour
Borealis, Your information request - IR1-4794725085 Thank you for your
original email dated 5^th February
Dear FOI,
This request is delayed.
Please provide a response.
Yours sincerely,
Seymour Borealis
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