Thanks for the replies - it seems like it was just never considered as 
part of the ruling? I doubt a FoI request would get anywhere if no-one 
thought about it, unless anyone can think of a specific target.

Also, would it be possible, ignoring cost issues, to request that the 
information is released in anonymized form? If the High Court judgement 
and the FoI amendement only covered the actual data, for security 
reasons etc., would it still legally exempt them from releasing the 
similarity information? Saying that A = B is different from saying what 
A and B are. Not knowing much legally, or the details, maybe this could 
be clarified from the wording of both - or more probably in a ruling.

Practically I'm sure it wouldn't happen for cost reasons anyway, and as 
Matthew has just pointed out the Telegraph will hopefully be releasing 
the information anyway - but it might be useful to clarify anomyizing 
techniques for FoI requests in the future when a convenient leak doesn't 
happen.

Thanks,
Tim

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