I have an issue with domestic planning applications' comments. An applicant has copied the comments from neighbours on to his/her personal blog and made annotations about the comments that had been made via the planning portal in relation to a planning application. The personal blog includes names and addresses of neighbours and some annotations from the applicant who is giving his/her "version of the facts" are libellous. The City Council do not think that they can remove the annotations or stop the publication of the personal data on the blog.
Do you have any experience or views on this? Should the ICO be contacted? The applicant is writing on behalf his/her business. Could the applicant's business be a data controller in DPA terms?
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