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More ICO guidance! Recognised legitimate interests
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More draft ICO guidance! This time, about one of the Data (Use and Access) Act's most important concepts: "Recognised legitimate interests".
The "recognised legitimate interests" are data processing activities that, frankly, the government would like you to do more of.
Unlike regular old legitimate interests, you won't need to conduct a "balancing test" before processing personal data for these purposes: So long as the processing is "necessary", you can just go right ahead and do it.
So far we have five "recognised legitimate interests":
• Public task disclosure request
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