Recommendation L60: ICO Public Guidance
From An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, published 29 November 2012.
Recommendation
The Information Commissioner's Office should take steps to prepare and issue guidance to the public on their individual rights in relation to the obtaining and use by the press of their personal data, and how to exercise those rights.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry asked the Information Commissioner's Office to publish public guidance on press data rights. In January 2013, it stated that it recognised the importance of developing this guidance and would publish it alongside a proposed code of practice, aiming to have it ready by the end of May 2013 (Information Commissioner's Office response, Jan 2013).
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Government response
We recognise the importance of developing this guidance, which we will develop and publish in conjunction with the proposed Code of Practice mentioned above. We will also aim to have this guidance ready by the end of May 2013.
Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.
Scope of the government response
PM David Cameron responded to all 92 recommendations with a single statement accepting them "in principle" or "in part". No per-recommendation response was published.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Information Commissioner has been found in the sources searched (last checked 24 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.
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- Information Commissioner
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