Recommendation L65: ICO Specialist Knowledge Review
From An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, published 29 November 2012.
Recommendation
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.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry asked the Information Commissioner to review specialist knowledge regarding the press. In January 2013, the Information Commissioner's Office stated that it had undertaken the review and recognised the need for more specialist knowledge of press workings and data protection, but addressing that need was not mentioned in the sources (Information Commissioner's Office response, Jan 2013).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 1 Oct 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
Government response
We have undertaken this review and recognise the need to have more specialist knowledge of the workings of the press and the application of the data protection regime to them.
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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Who has spoken
- Information Commissioner
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