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Best Practice Updates

We recommend completing due diligence on any third party suppliers that you share personal data with.  We recommend that you do this BEFORE purchasing, installing and using the product to share information.  Our Knowledge Bank platform has a Supplier Due Diligence Best Practice area to help with this and lists many suppliers that we have done some generic risk assessments on.  Ensuring due diligence is part of your procurement process for apps means that someone is less likely to

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Best Practice Updates

The DfE have recently published an update to their meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges, with three new sections:
Digital Accessibility Standards
Digital Leadership and Governance Standards
Laptop, desktop and tablet standards

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Best Practice Updates

Security researchers and computing blogs are reporting 'the mother of all breaches' in reference to a data breach where billions of records have been breached.  The dataset doesn't come from one single breach but a compilation of multiple data breaches.  

International Data Transfers (part 1): Navigating Cross-Border Data Transfers: Understanding EU SCCs, UK Addendum, and UK IDTA
Best Practice Updates

The first in a seriers on International Data Transfers..
Navigating Cross-Border Data Transfers: Understanding EU SCCs, UK Addendum, and UK IDTA

In the ever-evolving landscape of global data protection, we are continually challenged to ensure the secure and lawful transfer of personal data across borders. The European Union (EU) has long been a frontrunner in establishing data protection standards, and its regulations have far-reaching implication

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Best Practice Updates

A number of schools have reported a data breach by ClassCharts this week.  ClassCharts is school management software that allows teachers to create a customisable classroom seating chart.  It can also be used to track student behaviour, reading levels and other student data.

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