Understanding the General Data Protection Regulation (FutureLearn)

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.

What topics will you cover?

- 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

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- 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.