Schools and other educational institutes are required to process vast amounts of personal data. They usually need information on pupils and parents, including safeguarding, contact information and in some cases financial details. It’s therefore essential that schools have appropriate data privacy...
The education sector was responsible for at least 172 data breaches in 2021, making it the second most vulnerable to security incidents. Only the public sector (263) suffered more publicly disclosed data breaches last year, according to data from our sister...
Schools share personal data with suppliers all the time, but because of the rules imposed by the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), they need to be careful about the way they use that information. The GDPR extends the scope of responsibility...
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) outlines six lawful bases for processing personal data. In this blog, we look at one that’s causing a lot of problems for schools – processing that’s “necessary for the performance of a task carried out...
After years of negotiation, the UK finally left the EU on 1 January 2021, but many organisations are no closer to understanding the data protection ramifications of Brexit. Schools with close ties with the EU, may have to make major changes...
