ICO Specialist Knowledge Review
The Information Commissioner's Office should take the opportunity to review the availability to it of specialist legal and practical knowledge of the application of the data protection regime to the press, and to any extent necessary address it.
- No published evidence of a specific ICO review of its specialist legal and practical knowledge relating to press data protection, or any resulting changes to staffing or expertise, has been identified to March 2026.
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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
Published Evidence
Published assessments of progress from inspectorates, select committees, official progress reports, and other sources. Source type badge indicates whether each assessment is independent or government self-reported.
The ICO has developed specialist knowledge on data protection and the press, including through the development of the Journalism Code of Practice (2023) and its handling of press-related complaints and enforcement.
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ICO specialist capacity on press data protection has been developed.