Certified Data Protection Officer (C-DPO) Upgrade

Course Syllabus

Our Certified Data Protection Officer (C-DPO) Upgrade training course will cover the following topics:

• The legal background of the GDPR and how the Regulation intersects with the PECR, freedom of information legislation, the Law Enforcement Directive and EU member state implementation approaches.
• Key changes in the UK GDPR and how it differs from the EU GDPR.
• The practical implications of the Schrems II ruling with regard to UK–US data transfers and standard contractual clauses.
• Updates on the Statutory Instrument 419 and Keeling Schedules.
• The requirements for the appointment of a DPO, and the demands placed on the DPO and on the controller or processor.
• The responsibility to inform and advise controllers or processors of their GDPR obligations.
• Essential training skills to allow the DPO to better ‘inform and advise’.
• How to monitor compliance with the GDPR.
• The DPO’s role in relation to liaising with data subjects and with the supervisory authorities.
• The DPO’s role in awareness-raising and staff training.
• All aspects of personal data processing.
• The purpose of data inventories, data flow mapping and the records of processing activities required by Article 30.
• The requirements around DSARs and the DPO’s role in facilitating them.
• The DPO’s role in incident management and response and data breach reporting.
• When and how to carry out a DPIA.
• The data processing requirements when transferring personal data to EU and other locations outside of the UK, particularly in relation to Cloud service providers.