In 2009 the Information Commissioner's Office uncovered the Consulting Association blacklist, which contained information on 3, 212 people.

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He eventually managed to gain possession of his own blacklist file by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after officials raided Consulting Association, in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in March 2009.

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The existence of the blacklist was exposed after a raid by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on an organisation called the Consulting Association in 2009.

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Japan, meanwhile, is anxious that America, in pursuit of nuclear progress, will remove North Korea from its terrorism blacklist before Mr Kim has come up with information Japan wants about its citizens abducted to North Korea in the past.

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Roscomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Communications) - the agency in charge of running the blacklist - confirmed that the clip had been flagged by a second watchdog Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service for Control in the Sphere of Protection Consumers' Rights and Well-Being of Humans) .

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