Consultation - Recognised legitimate interest

Closes 30 Oct 2025

Opened 21 Aug 2025

Contact

recognisedlegitimateinterest@ico.org.uk

Overview

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is consulting on draft guidance about recognised legitimate interest. This new lawful basis for processing has been added to the UK GDPR by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 but is not yet in force.

The guidance covers recognised legitimate interest in detail. It isn’t intended to cover every data protection concept and instead provides links to more information on our website. This guidance is aimed at large organisations and data protection officers. In due course we will also produce a shorter version of this detailed guidance that gives a summary of the key information, as well as updating existing lawful basis guidance.

Your responses will help us to improve our guidance and we welcome your feedback to the questions set out in this survey. They’re split into the following sections:

  • Section 1: About you
  • Section 2: About your organisation
  • Section 3: Your use of personal information
  • Section 4: Questions about the draft guidance
  • Section 5: Costs and benefits
  • Section 6: Final comments

The consultation will remain open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 October 2025. We may not consider responses received after this deadline.

Privacy statement

For this consultation we may publish in full the responses received from organisations or a summary of the responses. If we do publish any responses, we will remove any personal information, email addresses and telephone numbers from these responses. Please do not share any information in your response which you would not be happy for us to make publicly available. 

Should we receive an FOI request for your response we will always seek to consult with you for your views on the disclosure of this information before any decision is made. For more information about what we do with personal information please see our privacy notice and the section on responding to our surveys.

Please note that we are using the platform Citizen Space to gather this information on our behalf. Citizen Space is provided by Delib. You can read Delib's privacy policy here.

Give us your views

Online Survey

Interests

  • Lawful Basis