Reading Borough Council Legal Services

• Confused about data protection legislation?
• Not sure about what we are legally obliged to release under the Freedom of Information Act?
• Have potentially embarrassing emails you'd like to keep from public scrutiny?

Well, your worries are over. Simply hit the special RBC delete key whilst in Outlook and all traces of errant emails will be erased from the Council's computers at the push of a button. It will instantly be deleted from your inbox, your deleted items folder, the Council's exchange server and any offline backups we may have made. If that isn't enough to reassure you that your secret is safe, we will also publically pretend that we don't keep archives of everybody's emails if some nosey git starts asking awkward questions. And as a special protection, unless they can give us the exact time, subject and recipient of their request so that we can trace the person who leaked the story in the first place, we'll simply refuse to acknowledge the emails exist.

Note: if you have lost an email you'd really like to keep, just ring up IT support and they'll restore it for you.