ICO consultation on a new chapter within the draft updated guidance on storage and access technologies

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is consulting on a new chapter within the draft updated guidance on storage and access technologies (previously known as the ‘detailed cookies guidance’).  

This new chapter contains updates to our guidance following the introduction of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.  

Your responses will help us to provide any additional further clarity required in the final guidance update. You can respond to the consultation via our survey on Citizen Space.  

You can also respond to the consultation by contacting us by email. 

We welcome feedback to the questions set out in the survey. This survey is split into the following sections: 

• Section 1: Your views on our proposed regulatory approach  
• Section 2: About you and your organisation 
• Section 3: Questions to assess the impact of our approach 
• Section 4: Final comments 

The consultation will remain open until the end of 26 September 2025. We may not consider responses received after this deadline. 

Privacy Statement

For this consultation, depending on your preference, 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 email addresses and telephone numbers from these responses. Please do not to 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 data please see our privacy notice, and the section on responding to our consultations and surveys.

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