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ICO’s data protection and journalism code of practice enters into force

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Published on: 22 February 2024

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LNB News 22/02/2024

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Issue Date: 22 February 2024

Published Date: 22 February 2024

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

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The Information Commissioner Office (ICO)’s data protection and journalism code of practice has entered into force on 22 February 2024. This follows the ICO submitting this code to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology on 6 July 2023, the code’s laying before Parliament on 23 November 2023 and its issue on 1 February 2024 under section 125 of the Data Protection Act 2018. The code aims to help the media apply data protection law in a journalism context. It builds upon guidance for the media which the ICO published in 2014 following a recommendation from the Leveson Inquiry.

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