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Part of our role is to take action to ensure organisations meet their information rights obligations.

Change and Save Ltd

The ICO has issued a stop order against a company that falsely claimed it was phoning people as part of a lifestyle survey – a practice known as “sugging”.

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Action we've taken to ensure organisations meet their information rights obligations.

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Since 2005 we've ruled on more than 8,500 freedom of information and environmental information cases.

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Our monitoring of how long organisations are taking to respond to freedom of information requests.

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