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Big tobacco is watching: British American Tobacco's surveillance and information concealment at the Guildford depository.

机译：大烟草正在注视着：英美烟草公司在吉尔福德储藏室的监视和信息隐藏。

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The 1998 State of Minnesota legal settlement with the tobacco industry required British American Tobacco (BAT) to provide public access to the 8 million pages housed in its document depository located near Guildford, UK, and to any company documents sent to the Minnesota depository. While the Minnesota depository is managed by an independent third party, BAT's Guildford depository is run by the company itself. Starkly different from the Minnesota depository, at the Guildford depository it is extraordinarily more difficult to access, search, and obtain requested documents. BAT's approach to running the Guildford depository, in our view, amounts to concealing what is supposed to be public information. Newly produced BAT documents from subsequent litigation, dating from 1996 to 2001 disclose the company's efforts to gather intelligence on visitors and their work. We believe that BAT has acted to make access to information more difficult by delaying document production requested by public visitors and refusing to supply requested documents in an electronic format despite, in the company's own words, the establishment of "big time imaging" capabilities at the Guildford depository. During testimony in 2000, then BAT Chairman, Martin Broughton stated to the UK House of Commons Health Select Committee that the scanning and subsequent placement of the Guildford collection online "would be an extreme effort for absolutely no purpose whatsoever", stating that "there is no indication to me that serious researchers are showing any interest in the papers em leader ". New documents show that not only did the company recognise the importance of research undertaken by visitors, but also invested substantial resources and undertook numerous scanning projects during that time. The vulnerability of this important resource is demonstrated by the decreased number of files listed on the electronic database and the inadvertent deletion of an audio tape housed at the depository. With regard to intelligence gathering, BAT's law firm reported to BAT on the daily activities of depository visitors. Despite assurances to the contrary, these depository visitor reports show that BAT apparently tracked the database searches of a visitor. The company also tracked the physical movement of visitors and, in at least one instance, observed and noted the personal mobile phone use of a visitor. These activities raise ethical issues about BAT and/or its solicitors observing the work of lawyers and researchers representing health and government bodies. Given this new evidence, we assert that BAT is incapable of operating its depository in the spirit of the Minnesota settlement and should, therefore, be divorced from its operation. Accordingly, we recommend that the company provide its entire document collection electronically to interested parties thus allowing greater access to the public-health community as has been done in the USA.
机译：1998年，明尼苏达州与烟草业达成法律和解，英美烟草公司（BAT）必须公开访问位于英国吉尔福德附近其文件存放处中的800万页以及发送给明尼苏达州存放处的任何公司文件。明尼苏达州的存托处由独立的第三方管理，而英美烟草的吉尔福德存托处则由公司本身管理。与明尼苏达州的存放处完全不同，在吉尔福德的存放处，访问，搜索和获取所请求的文件特别困难。在我们看来，英美烟草公司经营吉尔福德储藏室的方法相当于掩盖了所谓的公共信息。从1996年到2001年的后续诉讼中，最新制作的BAT文件证明了该公司在收集有关访客及其工作情报方面的努力。我们相信，英美烟草公司采取行动，推迟了公众访问者要求的文件制作，并拒绝以电子格式提供所要求的文件，从而使信息获取更加困难，尽管以公司本身的话说，该公司已建立了“大时间成像”功能。吉尔福德仓库。在2000年的证词中，时任英美烟草公司董事长的马丁·布劳顿（Martin Broughton）向英国下议院健康选择委员会表示，对吉尔福德收藏品的扫描和随后的在线放置“绝对是毫无目的的极端努力”，并指出“存在对我来说，没有任何迹象表明认真的研究人员对论文的领导者表现出任何兴趣。新文件显示，该公司不仅意识到访客进行研究的重要性，而且还投入了大量资源并在此期间开展了许多扫描项目。电子数据库上列出的文件数量减少，并且无意中删除了存放在存储库中的录音带，证明了这一重要资源的脆弱性。关于情报收集，英美烟草公司的律师事务所向英美烟草公司报告了寄存访客的日常活动。尽管有相反的保证，但这些访客访问报告显示，BAT显然跟踪了访客的数据库搜索。该公司还跟踪访客的身体活动，并且至少在一种情况下观察并注意到访客使用个人手机的情况。这些活动引起了关于英美烟草公司和/或其律师的道德问题，观察了代表卫生和政府机构的律师和研究人员的工作。有了这一新证据，我们断言英美烟草无法按照明尼苏达州定居点的精神来经营其存托处，因此应与其运作分离。因此，我们建议该公司以电子方式向感兴趣的各方提供其完整的文档收集，从而可以像在美国那样更大地进入公共卫生界。

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