Course Overview

Protecting Personal Information is an applied form of preservation and regulation that focuses on storage, safeguarding, preservation and safe use of relevant digital content. The ultimate objective of all digital preservation activity is to keep valuable and useful digital material (increasingly online) available and relevant for user groups. The aim of this module is to focus on the storage, safeguarding, preservation and safe use of relevant digital content.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will have an understanding of:

• Understand the main elements of Data Protection
• Be able to understand and comply with legislation
• Know your responsibilities as an individual
• Be able to identify Personal and Sensitive Data
• Know the Eight Principles of Data Protection
• Know about Data Subject Rights
• Know about Data Security
• Know about Disclosure of Data