The next Information Commissioner likely to dance to the Government’s tune and thereby lack credibility
10 March 2021
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A brief blog on two recent publications in the press that herald the appointment of a malleable Information Commissioner to replace Ms. Denham in October. According to these documents, the replacement Commissioner could well be expected to make decisions that favour Government policy (e.g. in data sharing; with respect to the National Data Strategy). The first publication is the column that appeared in the Financial Times (FT) on February 27th; it is written by Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for
