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Understanding the GDPR 

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Overview

Get to grips with the General Data Protection Regulation and take the first steps to ensuring that your organisation is compliant.

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Credential

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Understanding the GDPR
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Highlights

  • Access to this course for 6 weeks
  • Offered by University of Groningen
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Understanding the GDPR
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Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
  • The course is specifically developed for professionals working for companies, public authorities and bodies, students, and anyone who wishes to know more about data protection and the GDPR, especially those handling personal data.
What are the course deliverables?
  • Identify the main positions of the GDPR, including key concepts, principles and data protection roles.
  • Explore rights of data subjects and their relevance in daily life.
  • Investigate obligations of data controllers and processors and related steps that need to be taken for complying with the GDPR.
  • Evaluate enforcement and compliance mechanisms and international data transfers under the GDPR.
More about this course
  • On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), aiming to improve data protection for individuals across the EU, became directly applicable. Now, organisations need to be compliant with the new rules and should act immediately. By developing good knowledge of the GDPR and understanding how it affects you, you will learn about the first steps for making your organisation compliant and can immediately start taking them. You will explore data subjects?? rights, data controllers?? and processors?? obligations, and enforcement and compliance notions in the context of the Regulation.

Understanding the GDPR
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

General principles and basic concepts of the GDPR

Key actors under the GDPR and their role

Rights of data subjects

Obligations of data controllers and processors and law compliance measures

Enforcement and compliance mechanisms

Liabilities and sanctions

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