Follow on from FOI-2007-1920 Thank you, but if you have already identified emails between TFL and AnyVision (21 hits) please can you provide me with these emails.

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Our ref: FOI-2282-1920

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 29 October 2019 asking for information about AnyVision.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our Information Access Policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you requested. You asked:

Please can you send me a copy of any correspondence between TfL officials and a company called AnyVision since January 2017. Please include any emails, documents or meeting minutes. Please can you also send me any correspondence including emails, documents or meeting minutes that mentions the company AnyVision since January 2017.

Please find attached some of the information you requested.

Please note that some information related to AnyVision’s product has been redacted, and the Market Sounding Questionnaire, meeting slides and the GDPR document omitted as it is subject to a statutory exemption to the right of access to information under section 41 of the FOI Act. In this instance a section 41 exemption has been applied as disclosure of the information you have requested was provided to TfL by a Third Party (AnyVision) in confidence. Information received from companies on the development of new technologies (which reflect their various strategies) represent the employment of their own intellectual property and is proprietary and confidential in nature intended for the use of the recipient only. The information is not in the public domain, and there was not a reasonable expectation that the withheld information would be made public by TfL. Therefore we consider that disclosure would constitute an actionable breach of confidence. Since section 41 confers an absolute exemption, it is not necessary to consider whether the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. Even if section 41 did not confer absolute exemption, there would be no special public interest in disclosure of this information that would justify a breach of confidence in this case.

Further, in accordance with the FOI Act, personal information has been redacted in the emails as it is subject to a statutory exemption to the right of access to information under section 40(2). This exemption to your right of access is applied in accordance with TfL’s obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA).

The exemption applies because disclosure of personal information would be a breach of the DPA, specifically the first principle of the DPA which requires all processing of personal data to be fair and lawful.

Please note that no trials have taken place.

If this is not the information you are looking for, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely,

Melissa Nichols

FOI Case Officer

General Counsel

Transport for London

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