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ARTICLE · 10 OCTOBER 2022

Information Commissioners Office Publishes Draft Guidance On Privacy Enhancing Technologies

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The ICO has released its guidance discussing privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) in detail.

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Sean Crotty
Sean Crotty

The ICO has released its guidance discussing privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) in detail.

Those organisations who champion the ethical use of personal data – Weightmans being one – have arguably received a boost from the Information Commissioners Office ("ICO") publication of its draft guidance on privacy enhancing technologies ("PETs").

The ICO's aim is to "...help organisations to unlock the potential of data by putting a data protection by design approach into practice". Here, at Weightmans, we have always stressed the economic and strategic value of data to organisations. However, we also believe that it is important to use such valuable business assets in an ethical manner. The ethos of this draft guidance is to assist your business in benefiting from the utilisation of data, albeit ethically and in full compliance with data protection laws.

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