The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office has reached out to the British government about plans to gather data from the Gov.uk website, BBC News reports. The inquiry comes after a BuzzFeed report revealed U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to use the website as a resource for “targeted and personalised information to be gathered, analysed and fed back actively to support key decision making” with Brexit. “We have contacted Government regarding the collection of personal data on gov.uk in order to fully understand its approach to compliance with data protection law and whether any further action is necessary,” the ICO said in a tweet.
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