Data Privacy and Security: Properly Handling and Securing Personal Information
8 min! Run Time
Employees
only
of Completion
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
Personal information identifies a specific individual, and it can belong to customers, employees, suppliers, business partners or third parties. Much of it is treated as private under the law.
What this course covers:
- What counts as personal information and whose information you may be holding
- Why certain personal information is considered private under the law
- The duty organisations and their employees have to safeguard it
- Considerations for handling personal information correctly
- Practical steps that protect it from exposure, theft and misuse
This second edition suits any employee whose role brings them into contact with personal data.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
Data Privacy and Security: Properly Handling and Securing Personal Information
Frequently Asked Questions
This second edition explains that personal information identifies a specific individual, and notes it can belong to customers, employees, suppliers, business partners or third parties alike, with a significant share of it treated as private under the law.
It explains why certain personal information is considered private under the law, giving learners the thinking behind legal protections rather than simply handing them a list of rules to memorize without understanding why they exist.
The course describes the duty that organisations and their employees share in safeguarding personal information, framing protection as a responsibility spread across roles rather than something owned only by a compliance department elsewhere in the building.
Learners get considerations for handling personal information correctly, along with practical steps that protect it from exposure, theft and misuse in everyday work situations across different departments, roles, and levels of seniority alike within the organisation.
This second edition suits any employee whose role brings them into contact with personal data, regardless of department or seniority within the organisation, since exposure to such information is rarely limited to just one team.
