Email Filters
Case reference FOI2024/01254
Received 24 July 2024
Published 25 July 2024
Request
I would like to make the following Freedom of Information request.
1) Does your IT system have a blocker which filters out certain words?
2) Do emails containing these specified words automatically go into a spam folder?
3) If the answer to Q1 is yes, are the following words (or derivatives) filtered: 'sex', 'breast'?
4) If the answer to Q2 is yes, do you have a procedure for checking that communications relating to genuine concerns which include blocked words are not discarded, e.g. breastfeeding support and sexual health?
Response
I would like to make the following Freedom of Information request.
1) Does your IT system have a blocker which filters out certain words?
A) No.
2) Do emails containing these specified words automatically go into a spam folder?
A) N/A
3) If the answer to Q1 is yes, are the following words (or derivatives) filtered: 'sex', 'breast'?
A) N/A
4) If the answer to Q2 is yes, do you have a procedure for checking that communications relating to genuine concerns which include blocked words are not discarded, e.g. breastfeeding support and sexual health?
A) N/A
Documents
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