Introducing Data Protection

Course objectives

An introduction to Data Protection legislation and its implications for the University. Participants will have opportunities to consider and discuss sample subject access requests, as well as getting hands-on experience examining particular ways in which Data Protection law is relevant to a wide variety of routine University tasks. The course objectives are:

To be aware of the context of the Data Protection act 1998
To understand key terms
To be aware key provisions and their implications for your work
to recognise a subject access request, and know what to do with it
to understand offences under the Act

Target audience

All members of staff who handle personal information.

Prerequisites

None

Course duration

3 hours

To find out when this course is due to run and to book a place, see our current training timetable.

Training timetable

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