ICO Adopt DPP Guidelines
The Information Commissioner's Office should immediately adopt the Guidelines for Prosecutors on assessing the public interest in cases affecting the media, issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2012.
- No published evidence that the ICO formally adopted these specific DPP guidelines for its own prosecution decisions in media-related cases has been identified to March 2026. The ICO has its own Regulatory Action Policy governing enforcement decisions.
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Response
Accepted in Part
Response
Accepted in PartThe Prime Minister did not specifically address ICO operational recommendations in his 29 November 2012 statement. The Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 124) required the ICO to produce a data protection and journalism code of practice, which was published in 2023. The ICO has acted on several of these recommendations through its statutory functions. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/david-cameron-statement-in-response-to-the-leveson-inquiry-report
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The ICO adopted the DPP's guidelines on assessing public interest in cases affecting the media as part of its prosecution approach.
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DPP guidelines adopted by the ICO.