HomeInsightsInformation Commissioner’s Office publishes guidance on Coronavirus recovery

As lockdown restrictions start to ease and businesses begin to reopen, the ICO has set out the key steps organisations need to consider around the use of personal information. The steps are:

  1. only collect and use what’s necessary;
  2. keep it to a minimum;
  3. be clear, open and honest with staff about their data;
  4. treat people fairly;
  5. keep people’s information secure; and
  6. staff must be able to exercise their information rights.

The ICO says that a fair approach to handling people’s data, which is transparent in its purpose and compliant with data protection law, will gain the trust of colleagues and communities in this exceptional time. The ICO says that it will continue to help organisations and businesses through the current recovery phase by supporting innovation and economic growth, while ensuring that people’s information rights are not set aside. To read the advice document in full, click here.

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