Information Commissioner's Office

In this case the Information Commissioner is both the public authority which is the subject of the complaint and the regulator of the FOIA responsible for investigating the complaint. The notice will use the term Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO) when referring the Information Commissioner as the public authority subject to the complaint and the term Commissioner will be used to refer to her as the regulator. The complainant has requested correspondence between the ICO and various parties, which in broad terms relate the ICO’s investigations into the use of data analytics for political purposes. The ICO withheld the information under the exemption provided by section 31 – law enforcement. The Commissioner’s decision is that the ICO has correctly applied section 31 to withhold the requested information. The Commissioner does not require the public authority to take any further action in this matter.