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Privacy

Recommendations related to privacy

7 recommendations 57% accepted

Tag overview

Government Response
Accepted (1)
Accepted in Part (3)
Not Accepted (1)
Awaiting Response (2)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 4 inquiries

Across 4 inquiries

Tagged Recommendations

7 total
COVID-M4.4 No Published Response COVID-19 Inquiry

Proportionate Access to Linked Healthcare Records

The UK government and devolved administrations should work together, with their respective health delivery services, to facilitate and coordinate regulatory bodies' access to healthcare records in order to make the …

Government response: No Published Response. Status: Pending. No independent verification has been carried out.
Medicines and Healthcare…
R50 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

CCTV guidelines for residential and day services

Guidelines should be agreed in relation to providing CCTV systems in residential and day services where requested. Guidelines should be agreed by HSCTs, resettlement service providers, families and people with …

Northern Ireland Executi…
ANG-12 Accepted Angiolini Inquiry

Officers held to higher standard with fettered privacy rights

With immediate effect, police forces should convey to all existing and prospective officers and staff that they must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members …

- The government accepted this recommendation on 25 March 2024, with the NPCC Chair confirming all recommendations were accepted (Government accepts all recommendations made by …
National Police Chiefs C…
L40 Accepted in Part Leveson Inquiry

Public Advice and Warning Service

A new regulatory body should continue to provide advice to the public in relation to issues concerning the press and the Code along with a service to warn the press, …

- The Prime Minister stated on 29 November 2012 that he accepted the principles for independent self-regulation including public guidance (Oral Statement to Parliament, Prime …
Press
L69 Accepted in Part Leveson Inquiry

Review of Damages for Media Torts

There should be a review of damages generally available for breach of data protection, privacy, breach of confidence or any other media-related torts, to ensure proportionate compensation including for non-pecuniary …

- Section 168 of the Data Protection Act 2018 confirmed that compensation for distress (non-pecuniary loss) is available without requiring financial loss, applicable to all …
UK Government
L70 Not Accepted Leveson Inquiry

Civil Justice Council Damages Review

The Civil Justice Council should consider the level of damages in privacy, breach of confidence and data protection cases, being prepared to take evidence (from the Information Commissioner, the media …

- No published evidence that the Civil Justice Council conducted a review of the level of damages in privacy, breach of confidence and data protection …
UK Government
L8 Accepted in Part Leveson Inquiry

Code Content Requirements

The code must take into account the importance of freedom of speech, the interests of the public (including the public interest in detecting or exposing crime or serous impropriety, protecting …

- The Prime Minister stated on 29 November 2012 that he accepted the principle of a standards code covering privacy, accuracy, and the public interest …
Press