Data protection is essentially the safeguarding of information and data, protecting those who share their data from being compromised, lost or corrupted. More data is being collected than ever before by businesses, whether it is for the purpose of a specific service or marketing. This enormous amount of data being stored must be kept confidential and used only for specific purposes, making data protection increasingly important.

You will also be encouraged to complete a workplace audit to ensure that you are complying with the law and legislation around GDPR.

This course will teach you the key understanding GDPR, such as how data protection protects individuals’ information, but also the interests of a business. It will enable you to do a workplace audit and check that you are complying with the legislation surrounding GDPR and Data Protection.

Course Duration: approximately 5 hours.

Course Timeline:
Training Objectives and Outcomes
This module covers: What we mean by Data Protection, The Data Protection Act 2018, Data Protection Law Changes, Offences Relating to Data Protection and GDPR. We also look at terminology around data protection.
This module covers: Retrieving, extracting and processing data and the legalities surrounding this.
This module covers: This module explains the rights of an individual in terms of their data.
This module covers: Why does an organisation need to comply with data security and how can they do this?
This task will enable you to do a brief workplace audit in regards to GDPR and Data Protection and to see if there is anything your organisation needs to do now.
Conclusive summary of the course.
Multiple Choice Test
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