GDPR Training Reviews

The information on data protection is obviously very important and the course explained the vital aspects very clearly. Breaking down the information into small video sessions was particularly helpful and allowed succinct notes to be taken. Whilst some of the information is common sense it is useful to have it clarified and reinforced.

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

I had to spend 3 mins 7 seconds watching this drivel to get a single point of information (the footnote) The year is 1995 and Europe is a lawless pre-GDPR wasteland – Toy Story is quickly taking over the world, Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise is being played on repeat from every speaker in the country, and the entire nation is gripped in a frenzy of both fear and excitement as Cliff Richard is knighted by the Queen. However, at the same time, the lawmakers over in the EU are voting on a new piece of legislation called the Data Protection Directive. It will set the standard for data protection all across the EU and will require every member country to introduce their own laws and regulations in order to meet those standards. When it was created, the Directive was one of the most comprehensive pieces of data protection legislation in the world and it did a lot to ensure the safety of people’s personal information. However, what the Directive couldn’t predict – even in a year which saw Bill Gates unleash Windows 95 into the world – was just how much technology was going to change the way we process and share our data. It became very clear over the next decade that the Directive just wasn’t able to keep up with the rise of the internet and, particularly, with how easy it was becoming to share data across borders and even outside of the EU. So, in 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation replaced the Directive and was enforced across the entire EU. The Regulation went further than the Directive ever did; it gave people much greater rights over their data; it placed stricter responsibilities on organisations who used people’s data to keep it safe and to be accountable for everything they did with it; and, perhaps most importantly, it future proofed itself by being written in a way which allowed it to remain relevant even as technology and the ways in which we share data continued to change. The UK left the EU on the 31st January 2020 and entered a transition period where all EU regulations – including the GDPR – continued to be enforced. This period ended on the 31st December 2020 and the UK and the GDPR parted ways for good…well, almost. In order to continue trading with the EU, the UK needs to share data; and to share data with the EU, the UK needs to have data protection legislation which is AT LEAST as robust as the GDPR. As a result, the EU Regulation was brought into UK law, amended slightly to make it more relevant, and now it sits alongside other data protection laws and regulations which, together, make up the UK GDPR. Throughout this course, we’re only interested in UK based data protection laws, so whenever we talk about “the GDPR” we’re referring to the regulation as it is in the UK and NOT in the EU.