Learn the legal foundations of UK GDPR, with insight into compliance and risk management, in this free online course. Did you know that in the UK, organisations are legally required to protect personal data under the UK GDPR? This course explores its legal foundations, compliance requirements and risk management approach, understanding of lawful processing and individual rights. This course was reviewed and approved by Ali Kazmi, an Expert in GDPR compliance and cybersecurity controls. Start your journey towards best-practice data protection by enrolling today.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201745 |
| Course Category | Data Protection, Business |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Define the scope, key actors, and data types regulated under UK GDPR. • Distinguish between personal data, pseudonymisation, and anonymisation in compliance contexts. • Identify responsibilities of controllers, joint controllers, and processors. • Select appropriate lawful bases for processing personal and special category data. • Explain consent requirements and safeguards for criminal offence data. • Describe core data protection principles and accountability obligations. • Apply data protection by design and by default to processing activities. • Outline transparency duties and the limits of data subject rights. • Assess governance controls for records of processing and request handling. • Evaluate high-risk processing using DPIAs and legitimate interests assessments. • Indicate technical and organisational measures for data security and breach response. • Review international transfer mechanisms and third-party data management requirements. |
| Course Code | 7839 |
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