Existence of Legal Advice to ICO in respect of Viral Marketing

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Dear Information Commissioner's Office,

Please provide a listing giving the date and subject of any Counsel's opinion, or advice from its solicitors which the ICO has received since 1 January 2015 in respect of the applicability of the PECR to viral marketing and "tell a friend" campaigns by any form of electronic media.

Yours faithfully,

Madeline Bowles

Information Access Inbox, Information Commissioner's Office

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Information Commissioner's Office

1 February 2020

 

Case Reference Number IRQ0906616

 

Dear Ms Bowles

Request for Information
 
Thank you for your correspondence dated 30 January 2020.
 
Your request is being dealt with in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  We will respond promptly, and no later than 27
February 2020 which is 20 working days from the day after we received your
request.
  
Yours sincerely
 
 

Jessica Duckworth
Senior Information Access Officer
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF
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Information Commissioner's Office

12 February 2020

 

Case Reference Number IRQ0906616

 

Dear M Bowles

Thank you for your recent request for information. We received your
request on 30 January 2020.
 
We have considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
 
Your request
 
‘Dear Information Commissioner's Office, Please provide a listing giving
the date and subject of any Counsel's opinion, or advice from its
solicitors which the ICO has received since 1 January 2015 in respect of
the applicability of the PECR to viral marketing and "tell a friend"
campaigns by any form of electronic media.’
 
Our response 
 
Following appropriate enquiries within the office, I can confirm that we
do not hold information in the scope of your request.
                                     
Next steps
 
I hope this response is clear. If you would like me to clarify anything
about the way your request has been handled please contact me.
 
You can ask us to review the way we have handled your request. Please see
our review procedure [1]here.
 
Following our internal review, if you remain dissatisfied with the way we
have handled your request, there is a statutory complaints process and you
can report your concern to the regulator. I have included information
about how to do this separately.
 
Yours sincerely,

 

Jessica Duckworth
Senior Information Access Officer
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF
T. 0330 4146497  F. 01625 524510  [2]ico.org.uk  [3]twitter.com/iconews
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