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Add advice on avoiding data breaches to officer help page

Open RichardTaylor opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

New section for

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/officers

incorporating advice including that at

https://www.mysociety.org/2013/06/13/whatdotheyknow-team-urge-caution-when-using-excel-to-depersonalise-data/

RichardTaylor avatar Apr 05 '22 15:04 RichardTaylor

Links to https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/1115

RichardTaylor avatar Apr 05 '22 15:04 RichardTaylor

The advice should include links to:

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/how-to-disclose-information-safely-removing-personal-data-from-information-requests-and-datasets/2013958/how-to-disclose-information-safely.pdf

and

https://ico.org.uk/media/1061/anonymisation-code.pdf

RichardTaylor avatar Apr 08 '22 13:04 RichardTaylor

Just noting some specifics and search terms:

  • Cached data
  • Hidden sheets
  • Filters don't remove data

Excel, Spreadsheets, XLS, XLSX.

Also marking as blog-idea as it may be that we publish a post and link to it from this page.

garethrees avatar Jan 26 '23 09:01 garethrees

Incorporate https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/1745

garethrees avatar Jul 11 '23 08:07 garethrees

My current plan is to spin this off by itself and add a link from the officer page

HelenWDTK avatar Sep 27 '23 09:09 HelenWDTK