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Use data more effectively by improving your technology, infrastructure and processes.
Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules
How to make sure your data is accessible, reusable and maintained independently of any technology or service.
Using metadata to make it easier to catalogue, validate, reuse and share your data.
Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
All essential shared data assets (ESDA) must be assessed for data quality issues, made findable and be available through APIs.
Explains how to make sure people can find your data and how to maintain it.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to prepare and analyse the data you collected for your evaluation.
The Data Protection Act (DPA) controls how personal information can be used and your rights to ask for information about yourself
Share your reference data for use in projects and services outside your organisation.
Design, build and operate APIs in a consistent way
Responding to a data protection request - what you need to provide and what happens if you do not provide the information.
Explains what local authorities should do before publishing their data.
Who you can share personal data with and what consent you need to get – for example, when publishing exam results and taking photos in school.
The information that schools maintained by their local authorities must or should publish on their websites.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology.
How to choose data tools and infrastructure that are flexible, scalable, sustainable and secure.
Guidance to help you plan and prepare for implementing artificial intelligence (AI).
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