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24 July 2022


A sends:

I suggest you may want to archive the results of the following searches:
site:ofcom.org.uk "classification:"
site:ofcom.org.uk "internal use only"
site:ofcom.org.uk "confidential"
site:ofcom.org.uk "strictly confidential"
site:ofcom.org.uk "strictest confidence"
site:ofcom.org.uk "highly sensitive"
site:ofcom.org.uk "commercially sensitive"
It's mostly PDFs, but some doc/docx, xls/xlsx, ppt/pptx, etc, also.
After you've secured the documents, you may want to follow up by emailing them to ask which documents they actually do consider to be classified or not, and why. Perhaps some really do deserve privacy; perhaps some were intentionally made public; perhaps you'll simply be able to provide more context as to what documents they most want you to take down.
For context, Ofcom is the UK's regulatory agency of more or less all communication services (telcos, mail, internet, etc) — roughly parallel to the FCC in the US.
As best I can tell so far, none of the results seem to plausibly deserve classification. E.g. this comment on a public rulemaking about meeting universal service obligations, by one of the UK's largest ISPs, is marked "strictly confidential":
There are also mixed-redaction documents. E.g. this is marked "public" on the first page, and has redactions on pages 20-25, but also has long "strictly confidential" section at pages 32 -146:
Some have the classification stated only in the metadata, e.g.:
Some fully redacted results which have stray classification headers, e.g.:
Note that sometimes the "classification" text is present, but visually hidden by the header:
Just by way of example, this is only the first of a few thousand search results:
http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/Community/commitments/cr101766.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/215317/annex-a-ofcom-decision-on-cgtn-licence.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/127202/issue-7-bbc-online-complaints-bulletin.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/208216/2020-review-of-postal-user-needs-summer-research.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/113113/sme-communications-needs.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/231737/Adults-Media-Literacy-Core-survey-2021-Questionnaire.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/213826/Tour-of-Britain-2021.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/105685/Annex-10-Cartesian-Report.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0030/99471/Complaints-publication-Telecoms-and-Pay-TV-Complaints-Q4-2016.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/108604/Review-of-the-authorisation-regime-for-spectrum-access.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/105805/General-demand-for-information-for-purposes-of-calculating-annual-administrative-charges.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/157626/future-of-numbers-response-telefonica.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/106545/PSB-Nations-and-Regions-Compliance-Report-2017.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/225021/Wrexham-DAB-Ltd.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/109182/SWU.FM_application.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/225016/Alternative-Broadcast-Company.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/119280/ace-minutes-221118.pdf
http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/Community/commitments/cr000044.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/powerpoint_doc/0017/222560/Arolwg-Cael-Gafael-ar-Newyddion-Cymru-2021.pptx
http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/analogue/formats/al000032.doc
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/3786/CD037-T_Cs-for-Services-v6.1.pdf
http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/Community/commitments/cr000004.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/105540/Canllawiau-arlein-y-BBC-Cymraeg.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/109187/Xpression_FM_application.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/87040/Regional-production-and-regional-programme-definitions.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/109151/Chak_De_FM_Application.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/109153/Deen_FM_Application.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/106115/Dean-Radio_application.pdf