Data Protection Essentials
Duration: 45 minutes
As a company employee, the responsibility falls on you to keep individuals’ data safe, secure and processed appropriately. As such, you need to know about, and comply with, current data protection regulations – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 – to avoid serious legal consequences for you and your employer. This course will help you understand the aims and provisions of the UK’s data protection legislation and offers essential, practical advice on how to make yourself compliant.
This elearning module includes a range of learning activities to help you develop your understanding of data protection.
When you finish the course, you will be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing an assessment. Certification Service and count towards your annual CPD requirement.
Duration: 45 minutes
As a company employee, the responsibility falls on you to keep individuals’ data safe, secure and processed appropriately. As such, you need to know about, and comply with, current data protection regulations – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 – to avoid serious legal consequences for you and your employer. This course will help you understand the aims and provisions of the UK’s data protection legislation and offers essential, practical advice on how to make yourself compliant.
This elearning module includes a range of learning activities to help you develop your understanding of data protection.
When you finish the course, you will be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing an assessment. Certification Service and count towards your annual CPD requirement.
Duration: 45 minutes
As a company employee, the responsibility falls on you to keep individuals’ data safe, secure and processed appropriately. As such, you need to know about, and comply with, current data protection regulations – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 – to avoid serious legal consequences for you and your employer. This course will help you understand the aims and provisions of the UK’s data protection legislation and offers essential, practical advice on how to make yourself compliant.
This elearning module includes a range of learning activities to help you develop your understanding of data protection.
When you finish the course, you will be asked to demonstrate your understanding by completing an assessment. Certification Service and count towards your annual CPD requirement.
Objectives
By the end of the course you should be able to:
Recognise why fair and effective data management is important to individuals and to society as a whole
Understand relevant data protection legislation and regulations, along with the penalties for breaching these
Work with information in a way that doesn’t breach the data protection principles and individuals’ rights
Respond to requests for information from individuals in a way that is legal and effective
Topics
Understanding the need for data protection laws
EU and UK data control
Explaining The UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018
Defining personal data
Individuals’ rights
Data protection principles
Working with data