A review commissioned by the Cabinet Office recommends greater technical awareness in the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), The Guardian reports. A University of Southampton researcher says technology experts should be involved in the screening of information to be released. Kieron O'Hara says, "Technological developments have created so many imponderable problems...We need better institutions and conversations to screen data for the privacy implications of their release, and we need to include technologists in these conversations to a much greater degree than has historically been the case." Although the ICO has made "welcome strides" towards this, "the severe technical demands made by cutting-edge research in deanonymisation means that more effort is needed in this direction," O'Hara said.
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