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This guide is to help you and your business understand issues around data protection and privacy. It is intended for organisations that provide online services likely to be accessed by children.
A research paper from OFCOM
Ofcom and the ICO have published a joint statement that sets out their views on the interactions between online safety and data protection.
This is a guide to using the Taking Part survey online data analysis tools.
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.
Find data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies to help you build products and services.
Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
Guide to the submission process.
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation seeks evidence to support its reviews into online targeting and bias in algorithmic decision making.
Find out if you need to report packaging data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to access and use the coal mining information for England, Scotland and Wales held in the national coal mining database.
Use our verification services to improve the accuracy of property ownership data.
Independent advisors on AI and data-driven technology publish first recommendations to government on social media targeting
A call for information on how we tackle offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
The Data Protection Act (DPA) controls how personal information can be used and your rights to ask for information about yourself
Access HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) data. For example to support academic research, or the development or evaluation of policy and services.
How schools can share daily attendance data.
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