Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Practitioner

Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Practitioner Outline

Module 1: Data Subject Rights 

• Must I Always Obey a Right? 

• Rights and Third Parties 

• Requests Made on Behalf of Other Data Subjects 

• Guidelines for Children's Maturity 

• Responding to a Rights Request 

• What is a Month? 

• Rights Request Flow Chart 

• Right to be Informed 

• When Should Information Be Provided? 

• Best Practice Guidance 

• Right of Access 

• Right to Rectification 

• Right to Erasure 

• When can I Refuse to Comply with a Request for Erasure? 

• Erasing Children's Data 

• Right to Restrict Processing 

• When Processing Should be Restricted? 

• Protecting PII 

• Other Issues about Restricting Processing 

• Right to Data Portability 

• Right to Object 

• Complying with the Right to Object 

• Rejecting the Right to Object 

• Processing for Direct Marketing Purposes 

• Processing for Research Purposes 

• Rights Related to Automated Decision Making and Profiling 

• When does the Right not apply? 
   

Module 2: Subject Access Requests 

• Provenance 

• Overview: SARs 

• SAR is an Activity, Not a Title 

• How can a SAR be Submitted? 

• What Information Should the Response to a SAR Contain? 

• Additional Information 

• Replying to a SAR 

• Confirming a Data Subject’s Identity 

• Scope 

• Electronic Records 

• Non-Electronic Records 

• SARs Involving 3rd Party PII 

• Fees 

• Refusing a Subject Access Request 

• Access Requests from Employees 

• Credit Reference Agencies 

• Best Practice for SARs 
   

Module 3: Lawful Processing 

• Lawful Processing: A Reminder 

• User Rights Change Depending on the Justification 

• Lawfulness of Processing Conditions 

• Lawfulness for Special Categories of Data 

• UK ICO Tool 

• Consent 

• Key Points About Consent 

• Affirmative Action and Explicit Consent 

• Introduction of Affirmative Action 

• What is Not Affirmative Action? 

• Examples of Affirmative Action from the ICO 

• Introduction of Explicit Consent 

• Explicit Statement 

• Obtaining Explicit Consent 

• ICOs View of a Poor Form of Explicit Consent 

• Obtaining Consent for Scientific Research Purposes 

• Getting Consent 

• What Should Go into the Consent Request? 

• Consent Granularity 

• Right to Withdraw Consent 

• Children 

• Consent Records 

• ICOs Examples of Record Keeping 

• Key Points When Establishing Consent 

• Legitimate Interests 

• Getting the Balance Right 

• Consent or Legitimate Interest? 

• What Lawful Basis Can be Used for Processing Marketing PII? 
   

Module 4: Third Country Data 

• Cross Border Transfers 

• Transfer Mechanisms 

• Derogations 

• Adequacy 

• Adequate Ways to Safeguard Transfers of PII 

• Consent 

• One-Off or Infrequent Transfers 

• Who is Responsible? 

• Transferring PII Between EEA Members 

• Adequate Countries Outside of the EEA 

• Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) 

• What a BCR Must Cover? 

• Authorisation for BCRs 

• EU-US Privacy Shield 

• Privacy Shield Overview 

• Privacy Shield: Mechanics 

• Model Clauses 

• Public Authority Agreements 
   

Module 5: Introduction to Protecting Personal Data 

• Need to Secure 

• What is Appropriate? 

• Protecting PII – 3 Key Areas 

• Coverage 

• Defensive Design 

• Single Point of Failure (SPOF) 

• Incident Response 

• Data Breach Reporting Requirements 

• Incident Response Team 
   

Module 6: Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) 

• Introduction 

• What Triggers a Data Protection Impact Assessment? 

• Cases Where DPIA is Not Required 

• Benefits of DPIA 

• Processes to be Considered for a DPIA 

• Responsibilities 

• DPIA Decision Path 

• DPIA Content 

• How Do I Conduct A DPIA? 

• Signing Off the DPIA 

• Mitigating Risks Identified by the DPIA 
   

Module 7: Need Want Drop 

• Overview 

• Need-Want-Drop: Concept Diagram 

• Need-Want-Drop: Categorising Data 

• Need/Want/Drop Methodology 
   

Module 8: Dealing with Third Parties and Data in the Cloud 

• What is Cloud Computing? 

• Myths of Cloud 

• Cloud Challenges 

• Controller-Processor Contract 

• Checklist 

• Data Controller - Summary 
   

Module 9: Practical Implications: GDPR 

• Brexit and its Impact on the GDPR 

• Adequacy 

• What does this Mean in Practice? 

• EU and UK Representatives 

• Exemption Rule 

• One-Stop Shop 
   

Module 10: Legal Requirements of the GDPR 

• Lawful, Fair, and Transparent Processing 

• Limitation of Purpose, Data and Storage 

• Data Subject Rights 

• Consent 

• Personal Data Breaches 

• Privacy by Design 

• Data Protection Impact Assessment 

• Data Transfers 

• Data Protection Officer 

• Awareness and Training 
   

Module 11: Privacy Principles in GDPR 

• Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparency 

• Purpose Limitation 

• Data Minimisation 

• Accuracy 

• Storage Limitation 

• Integrity and Confidentiality 
   

Module 12: Common Data Security Failures, Consequences, and Lessons to be Learnt 

• Common Data Security Failures 

• Consequences 

• Fines Relating to Data Breaches 

• Litigation from Customers Relating to Data Breaches 

• Directors, Officers, and Professional Advisors 

• Reputational Damage 

• Lesson Learned 

• Knowing When and How to Communicate with Affected Individuals is Not Easy 

• GDPR is Important, as are Other Legal Frameworks 

What You’ll Learn in this Course

This course takes you from understanding GDPR principles to applying compliance strategies that protect personal data and ensure legal adherence. Each stage enhances your ability to manage data protection operations effectively. 
 

• Learn to interpret and apply key requirements of the EU GDPR 

• Learn how to establish and maintain effective data protection frameworks 

• Learn to conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) efficiently 

• Learn how to manage data breaches and reporting obligations 

• Learn to support organisational compliance through documentation and audits 

• Learn to align business processes with GDPR accountability and transparency principles 

EU GDPR Practitioner Exam Information 
 

To achieve the Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Practitioner, candidates will need to sit for an examination. The exam format is as follows:  

• Question Type: Multiple Choice  

• Total Questions: 30  

• Total Marks: 30 Marks  

• Pass Mark: 57%, or 17/30 Marks  

• Duration: 90 Minutes 

• Open Book/ Closed Book: Closed Book