The Liberal Democrats and Leave.EU both went to court in unsuccessful attempts to resist inquiries from the Information Commissioner’s Office, a report from the ICO shows.
The ICO had to take court action to force the two groups to cooperate with a data protection audit. The regulator’s investigation covered seven main political parties, plus several Leave and Remain campaign groups – including Arron Banks’s Leave.EU.
Both the Liberal Democrats and Arron Banks (on behalf of Leave.EU) appealed in court against the ICO, rather than cooperating with the regulator from the start, as other parties had done. Both appeals were unsuccessful, although Banks is still pursuing an additional appeal, further stymying the regulator.
