General Chat Thread, Freedom of Information Act - Telephones in General; Doe anyone know if you have the right under the Data Protection / Freedom of Information Act to request that ...
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4th December 2009, 07:53 PM #1 Freedom of Information Act - Telephones
Doe anyone know if you have the right under the Data Protection / Freedom of Information Act to request that a certain telephone company give you details of all calls made to your telephone number, including calls where the caller's number has been withheld?
Last edited by tech_guy; 5th December 2009 at 12:41 PM.
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4th December 2009, 07:57 PM #2 They would probably give you a list of incoming calls, but probably wouldn't divulge the number behind a witheld call (either from them not knowing it or to protect the privacy of the person who witheld it).
Post back on here though - I've thought about this before but didn't need to follow through with a request in the end.
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Thanks to mb2k01 from:
tech_guy (5th December 2009)
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4th December 2009, 08:33 PM #3 Isn't the FOI just for public authorities?
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Thanks to teddybear from:
tech_guy (5th December 2009)
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4th December 2009, 10:07 PM #4 FoI only applies to publicly-funded organisations.
Under data protection legislation, you can request a disclosure of information held that directly relates to you, but you certainly won't get withheld numbers out of them (I couldn't even do it for nuisance calls that I wanted to report to the TPS
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Thanks to powdarrmonkey from:
tech_guy (5th December 2009)
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4th December 2009, 10:25 PM #5 I think the only time you can request a weitheld number to be investigated is with a crime reference number for nuisance calls.
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Thanks to CHR1S from:
tech_guy (5th December 2009)
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