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If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
This Privacy Notice explains who is processing your data, the personal data we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and what your legal rights are.
The Online Safety Bill is a new set of laws to protect children and adults online. It will make social media companies more responsible for their users’ safety on their platforms.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to live stream, or view live streams by others.
Service providers or government departments installing networking technologies in government shared buildings, known as hub buildings.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform makes users’ account details and activity visible to others.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
This guidance explains why and how public sector organisations should move to modern network solutions and away from legacy networks with information on standards you need to follow and case studies.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse on your platform.
Internet use in the UK; annual estimates by age, sex, disability and geographical location.
Using recommended patterns for workplace wifi networks and sharing infrastructure.
Internet use by adults aged 16 years and over. By age, sex, disability, geographical location and weekly earnings.
Guidance for organisations when making decisions about the design and operation of enterprise IT services which handle OFFICIAL information.
Guidance for defence personnel on the use of social media
A research paper from OFCOM
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to establish a safe environment for children to positively interact with each other.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
How to choose data tools and infrastructure that are flexible, scalable, sustainable and secure.
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