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Data Protection in Practice: GDPR for Professionals

Learn to apply the GDPR in your work: lawful processing, individuals' rights, security and breaches, sharing and keeping data, and the national rules.

  • Format Online, self-paced
  • Scope 6 modules and a capstone
  • Duration About 8 h
  • Cost Quote on request

About this course

The course covers the principles and key terms, lawful processing, transparency and individuals’ rights, security and breaches, sharing and keeping data, and national rules and everyday questions. The capstone is a privacy review of a business process.

  • Practice on real tasks and an applied assignment
  • Graded final assessment

A certificate that lists the skills is issued when the final assessment is passed and the applied assignment is submitted.

Content

  1. Module 1

    Principles and Key Terms

  2. Module 2

    Lawful Processing

  3. Module 3

    Transparency and Individuals' Rights

  4. Module 4

    Security and Breaches

  5. Module 5

    Sharing and Keeping Data

  6. Module 6

    National Rules and Everyday Questions

  7. Module 7

    Capstone: A Privacy Review of a Business Process

Who it is for

  • HR, sales, marketing and support staff
  • Privacy career-changers

Fee and registration

Quote on request

Price Tell us which Skills courses and how many learners, and we send you a quote. Larger orders get volume pricing, and there is no minimum purchase.
Quoted on request
What a license covers Any license can be used on any Skills course: you choose the course when you assign it to a named learner.
One learner on one Skills course
What you need Skills course licenses sit on top of user licenses: a learner has to be a user on the platform.
A TechClass subscription
Access A license is used when it is assigned, whether or not the learner finishes. Unused licenses stay valid for 12 months from purchase.
12 months from assignment

How to get started

  1. Request a quote

    Tell us the Skills courses and the number of learners. We come back with a quote for the licenses and can walk you through the courses in a demo.

  2. Add your people

    Every learner needs a user license on TechClass. Skills course licenses are added on top.

  3. Assign a license to each learner

    Your admin assigns a license from the pool to each named learner on this course. The learner then has 12 months to complete it, at their own pace.

Education organizations and continuous learning departments: a plan of their own, paid per completion and with learner support, is in preparation. Contact us to discuss your program.

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Questions, answered

Data Protection in Practice: GDPR for Professionals FAQ

Per learner, per course. You buy Skills course licenses as a pool, on top of your user licenses, and your admin assigns one to a named learner on whichever Skills course they need. A license is used when it is assigned, whether or not the learner finishes.

Skills course licenses are quoted on request. Tell us which courses and how many learners you have in mind, and we send you a quote. Larger orders get volume pricing, and there is no minimum purchase.

Yes, with one license for each course. Licenses come from the same pool, so any license can be assigned to any Skills course, and all the licenses in one order count towards the volume price.

About 8 hours of guided learning, in modules, at the learner's own pace. Access lasts 12 months from the day the license is assigned.

Yes. A certificate that lists the skills is issued when the final assessment is passed and the applied assignment has been submitted.

A piece of real work that puts the skills to use. An employee does it on their own job and team; a learner without a suitable workplace does it on a provided case company. The learner checks it against a rubric, and a manager can review it.

No. Every Skills course stands on its own and restates what it relies on, so a learner can start with it directly.

The course is the same for companies and education organizations. A plan for continuous learning departments, paid per completion and with learner support, is in preparation.

English, at this stage.

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Learn to apply the GDPR in your work: lawful processing, individuals' rights, security and breaches, sharing and keeping data, and the national rules.

Full table of contents

Data Protection in Practice: GDPR for Professionals

7 modules · 24 sections

Module 1 Principles and Key Terms

  1. 1.1 Personal data, processing, controller and processor
  2. 1.2 The GDPR principles (Art. 5)
  3. 1.3 Accountability: showing that you comply (Arts. 5(2) and 24)
  4. 1.4 Supervisory authorities, and what enforcement looks like

Module 2 Lawful Processing

  1. 2.1 Lawful bases (Art. 6)
  2. 2.2 Consent
  3. 2.3 Legitimate interests and the balancing test
  4. 2.4 Special categories of data (Art. 9)

Module 3 Transparency and Individuals' Rights

  1. 3.1 Privacy notices
  2. 3.2 Access, rectification, erasure, objection (Arts. 12–22)
  3. 3.3 Recognizing and routing a request from an individual
  4. 3.4 Automated decision-making and profiling (Art. 22)

Module 4 Security and Breaches

  1. 4.1 Security of processing (Art. 32)
  2. 4.2 Everyday security habits for people who handle personal data
  3. 4.3 Recognizing and escalating a breach
  4. 4.4 Breach notification (Arts. 33–34)

Module 5 Sharing and Keeping Data

  1. 5.1 Processors and contracts (Art. 28)
  2. 5.2 Sharing with other controllers and third parties
  3. 5.3 International transfers
  4. 5.4 Retention and deletion

Module 6 National Rules and Everyday Questions

  1. 6.1 National rules in EU countries, with Finland's Data Protection Act (1050/2018) as the worked example
  2. 6.2 Employee data, with Finland's Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life (759/2004) as the worked example
  3. 6.3 Cookies and electronic marketing: the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC), as implemented nationally
  4. 6.4 Personal data in AI tools: what the GDPR asks of staff who use them

Module 7 Capstone: A Privacy Review of a Business Process