Basics of GDPR

📘 Module 1: Introduction to GDPR (30 Minutes)

📖 Section 1.1: What is the GDPR?

• Overview of the General Data Protection Regulation
• Purpose: Strengthening individual privacy rights in the EU
• Territorial scope and extraterritorial application

📖 Section 1.2: Who Must Comply?

• Roles: Data controllers and data processors
• Applicability to global businesses, websites, SaaS platforms

📘 Module 2: Key Concepts & Definitions (30 Minutes)

📖 Section 2.1: What is Personal Data?

• Examples: Names, email addresses, IPs, biometrics
• Special categories: Health, racial/ethnic, political beliefs

📖 Section 2.2: Key Roles

• Data Subject: The individual
• Data Controller: Decides purpose and method of processing
• Data Processor: Acts on behalf of controller

📖 Section 2.3: Lawful Bases for Processing

• Consent
• Contractual necessity
• Legal obligation
• Vital interests
• Public task
• Legitimate interest

📘 Module 3: Rights of Data Subjects (30 Minutes)

📖 Section 3.1: Overview of Rights

• Right to be informed
• Right of access
• Right to rectification and erasure
• Right to restrict and object
• Right to data portability
• Automated decision-making and profiling rights

📖 Section 3.2: Exercising and Responding to Data Rights

• Handling Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs)
• Response timelines and documentation requirements

📘 Module 4: Accountability, Security & Breach Response (30 Minutes)

📖 Section 4.1: Principles of Data Protection

• Lawfulness, fairness, transparency
• Purpose limitation and data minimization
• Accuracy, storage limitation
• Integrity, confidentiality, and accountability

📖 Section 4.2: Security and Breach Notification

• Basics of data protection by design and default
• 72-hour breach notification rule
• Role and appointment of the Data Protection Officer (DPO)

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