Programme

 

PART I  - JUMP START: Privacy Fundamentals


Monday: Privacy fundamentals and essential GDPR principles and requirements 
- GDPR - From data management to responsible use of date
- Key data protection concepts, principles and obligations
- Legal bases for processing personal data
- Processing sensitive personal data
- The rights of data subjects and how to handle them

 

PART II – Setting up and implementing a GDPR compliance framework in practice


Tuesday: Essential GDPR principles and requirements
- Actors, roles and responsibilities: Controller and processor
- The role of the DPO and the interaction with the rest of the organisation
- Supervisory authority and cooperation with the DPAs
- Data Protection Impact Assessment
- Data protection by design and default


Wednesday: Data Transfers
- Transfer personal data safely
- Adequacy decisions
- Standard Contractual Clauses
- Binding corporate rules
- Derogations and exceptions, including data subject consent


Thursday: Getting technical
- Data security management under the GDPR
- Security incidents
- Technical and organisational measures
- Personal data breach type risk management
- Data breach communication: Incidents response plan


Friday: Demonstrating compliance
- Re-cap of the week
- Exam instructions 
- Multiple choice exam
- Written exam

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Upcoming sessions
17-21 February 2025, Maastricht University
14-18 April 2025, Brazil
30 June - 4 July 2025, Maastricht University

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