The ICO has published its corporate plan for 2013 to 2016, following a public consultation. The plan sets out the ICO's goal, vision and mission and the strategic outcomes it hopes to achieve. The ICO has identified the following six objectives, achievement of which will enable the ICO to meet its desired strategic outcomes:
- Organisations have a better understanding of their information rights obligations.
- Enforcement powers are used proportionately to ensure improved information rights compliance.
- Customers receive a proportionate, fair and efficient response to their information rights concerns.
- Individuals are empowered to use their information rights.
- The ICO is alert and responsive to changes which impact on information rights.
- An efficient ICO well prepared for the future.
Detailed criteria of how the ICO will go about achieving those objectives, and the target implementation dates, are set out in the plan.
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