Overview

With the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) now in effect, your organisation will be liable for hefty fines if it doesn’t comply.

If you’re responsible for building and implementing the policies around operations which process data, you need this course.

This comprehensive course provides practical advice to staff who are responsible for processing personal data and executing data protection measures within their organisation in order to comply with the GDPR.

Objectives

• About the GDPR and the new Data Protection Act
• The key differences between the current data protection regime and the new one
• What the accountability principle is
• The roles and responsibilities of a Data Protection Officer (DPO)
• What rights people have over the processing of their data and the grounds for the exercising of these rights
• What information needs to be provided to a data subject
• How to respond to subject access requests and other requests from individuals
• The definition of consent and how to obtain valid consent
• The penalties for getting consent wrong
• The legal ways to process data
• What information must be provided in a privacy policy and when this information should be provided
• How to make sure the privacy policy is accurate
• Guidance on what organisations should do to help prevent breaches
• What to do in the event of a breach