Introduction to privacy: personal data and rights
You learn what personal data is, which rights people have and why organisations are accountable, with GDPR as the model and KVKK, LGPD and CCPA as further examples.
Level 101 · 16 lessons · 15 practice labs
Lessons
What privacy is
- Why privacy matters
- Personal data in everyday life
- Identifiable people: direct and indirect
- Special-category (sensitive) data
- Quick task: find the personal data in a form
Laws
- A short history of privacy laws
- GDPR as the model
- Other examples: KVKK, LGPD, CCPA, PIPEDA
- Supervisory authorities and penalties
- Quick task: compare three laws in one table
Rights and duties
- The rights of the data subject
- An organisation's core duties
- Privacy at work: email, screens, printouts
- Quick task: write an access request for your own data
Finish
- Default settings and privacy choices
- Capstone: a privacy scorecard for a mobile app
Practice labs
- Find the personal data in a form: Sort the fields of a gym membership form into personal data and non-personal data.
- Catch the indirect identifiers: In a twenty-row table with no names, find the field combinations that can indirectly identify a person.
- Pick out special-category data: Mark the fields in a Gelincik Okulları enrolment file that are special-category data and those that reveal it indirectly.
- Match the law to its jurisdiction: Match GDPR, KVKK, LGPD, CCPA and PIPEDA to their country or region and type of supervisory authority.
- Compare three laws in one table: From the given summaries, fill in a comparison table for GDPR, LGPD and CCPA with scope, rights and penalty rows.
- Which law applies: For six fictional company and customer location scenarios, state which privacy laws may apply and why.
- Match the request to the right: Match ten customer messages to the right of access, rectification, erasure, objection or portability.
- Write an access request for your own data: Write an access request to an online shop that covers identity confirmation and the information you are asking for.
- Can the request be refused: For eight request scenarios, decide with reasons whether the organisation must fulfil, partly fulfil or refuse the request.
- Spot the privacy mistakes at work: Find six privacy mistakes involving screens, email and printouts in an office description.
- The email sent to the wrong person: Write, in order, what to do in the first hour after a Lavinya Klinikleri appointment list goes to the wrong recipient.
- A checklist of core duties: Assess a small e-commerce company's description against the duties to inform, secure, retain and answer requests and list the gaps.
- Assess the default settings: Sort ten default settings of a social app into privacy-friendly and not.
- Are the permissions really needed: Mark the permissions that do not match the function in the permission lists of a torch, a notes and a maps app.
- A privacy scorecard for an app: From a fictional mobile app's privacy notice and permission list, produce a scorecard covering data collected, purpose, sharing and retention.
About this course
You learn what personal data is, which rights people have and why organisations are accountable, with GDPR as the model and KVKK, LGPD and CCPA as further examples.
What you will learn
- What privacy is
- Laws
- Rights and duties
- Finish
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is needed; the course starts from zero.
Lab environment
Lessons run in your own Kali Linux terminal that opens in the browser. Nothing to install; the lab starts clean in every lesson.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this course right for my level?
- The course is at beginner level; every term is explained where it first appears.
- Is there anything to install?
- No. Every lesson runs in your own lab environment that opens in the browser.
- How do lessons work?
- Each lesson has 8 to 10 steps and a short quiz. Early steps show the command to type, later steps give less help; if two attempts fail, the solution opens.
- Can I try it for free?
- Yes. The first three lessons of every course are free.