ICO clamps down on pseudonymous information requests
Wed, Jan 14th, 2009 |
Government organisations are being encouraged to refuse public requests for information if they believe real names have not been supplied, under new guidelines from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
The ICO reminded public authorities yesterday that people using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) sometimes use fake names to avoid their requests being seen as "vexatious or repeated". Such requests are automatically invalid and can be refused with no possibility of regulatory redress, it said.
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