What you will be able to do
- Apply data protection law to systems
- draft privacy notices, data-processing agreements and terms of service
- assess compliance risk
- understand cybercrime, electronic transactions and intellectual property rules
Syllabus
- 1 Legal framework for technology
- 2 Data protection compliance
- 3 Contracts, terms and SLAs
- 4 Intellectual property, open source and AI content
- 5 Cybercrime and evidence
- 6 Compliance audits and registers
- 7 Sector rules (education, health, finance)
- 8 Compliance project
Hands-on practical activities
- Data protection impact assessment for a real system
- draft policies for a client
- mock regulatory inspection
- compliance register build
Resources and equipment
Legislation summaries, policy templates (Annex K and L), laptops, guest legal practitioner, case library
🔋 No power? Off-grid option
Document-based work with printed case files
Career direction
Compliance officer, data protection officer assistant, legal tech support, policy analyst, risk analyst
Why it matters in the market
Organisations face growing data protection and cyber regulation and need trained compliance staff
Assessment
Compliance pack and viva
Progression
From EX7 or TR7; stacks with MK1, MK6, MK10