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The Data Protection Act (DPA) controls how personal information can be used and your rights to ask for information about yourself
The Data Protection Act 2018 controls how your personal information is…
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply from 25 May 2018 and it affects how we use your data.
Use data more effectively by improving your technology, infrastructure and processes.
Using metadata to make it easier to catalogue, validate, reuse and share your data.
This page links to methods and quality reports, blog posts and other resources on ethnicity data quality issues, written by analysts in the Race Disparity Unit.
How to choose data tools and infrastructure that are flexible, scalable, sustainable and secure.
All essential shared data assets (ESDA) must be assessed for data quality issues, made findable and be available through APIs.
How to make sure your data is accessible, reusable and maintained independently of any technology or service.
The National Data Strategy (NDS) is an ambitious, pro-growth strategy that drives the UK in building a world-leading data economy while ensuring public trust in data use.
Data First is an ambitious data-linking programme led by the Ministry of Justice and funded by ADR UK.
An explanation of how UKHSA processes your personal data when you apply to access it for secondary purposes
Explains what local authorities should do before publishing their data.
A service must be in compliance with all applicable data privacy regulations including the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018
The National Data Strategy Forum was created to ensure that a diverse range of perspectives continue to inform the implementation of the National Data Strategy.
The licences available for the use and re-use of Coal Authority data.
Explains the standard and practices you should use when publishing your data.
Add metadata to data you are publishing so search engines can find the data you’ve published and display structured results for users.
This form covers applications for data held by Ministry of Justice, the MOJ DfE share and data held by HM Courts & Tribunals.
All public facing services must provide quarterly service performance data to data.gov.uk
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