Stories from October, 2025

Data Sharing Agreements: Five Red Flags

If you’re a smaller or newer business, or you just don’t share personal data very often, then it is more than likely you won’t have your own standard template data sharing agreement. Instead, you’re likely to rely on the equivalent template provided by organisations you get personal data from or

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Open Data and Freedom of Information

  Open data is an increasingly important part of transparent governance, informed policymaking, and public accountability. Governments, public authorities, and institutions generate vast quantities of information every day — from spending data and environmental records to public service performance metrics. Making this data freely accessible is central to the open

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A Practical Risk Management Framework

This document outlines a Practical Risk Management Framework designed to integrate risk thinking into everyday organizational decision-making and operations. Risk is defined as the effect of uncertainty on objectives, encompassing potential threats that could derail success as well as opportunities that could accelerate it. The purpose of this Framework is

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GDPR and Employee Monitoring: What Employers Need to Know

As workplaces become increasingly digital, employers have greater access to employee monitoring. Whether it’s tracking websites visited during working hours, using CCTV in the workplace, or monitoring emails, employee surveillance has become a common — and often controversial — feature of modern management. The rise of remote and hybrid working

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The Importance of Professional Conduct

________________________________________________________________________________________________ [su_box title="About the Author" box_color="#020a4a"]Michael has over 15 years experience supporting, developing and improving effective conflicts of interests systems. He has worked in this field in the public, private and charity sectors including at Board level. This experience has made him the ideal lead trainer for WuDo Solutions’ five-star

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Key Performance Indicators for Information Governance

Here is a structured set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Information Governance that cover the full information lifecycle—from creation and use to retention and destruction. Each KPI is designed to provide measurable assurance that information governance risks are being mitigated effectively.   An example of an information governance control

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