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Data Ethics and Protection: Law, Rights and Responsible Practice

1Foundations: ethics, privacy and the law

  • 1.1What personal data really is
  • 1.2Who's who: data subjects, controllers and processors
  • 1.3What counts as processing
  • 1.4Privacy as a right, and where ethics goes beyond the law
  • 1.5Why this matters now: the global shift
  • 1.99Check yourself: foundations

2The core principles of data protection

  • 2.1Lawful, fair and transparent
  • 2.2Only what you need, only for why you said
  • 2.3Keep it correct, and do not keep it forever
  • 2.4Protect it, and be able to prove it
  • 2.5The six legal reasons, and real consent
  • 2.7Assignment: audit KiraPay against the principles
  • 2.99Check yourself: core principles

3The rights people have over their data

  • 3.1The right to know, and the right to see
  • 3.2Put it right, or make it gone
  • 3.3Take it with you, or tell them to stop
  • 3.4The right not to be judged by a machine alone
  • 3.5Handling a request, with the clock running
  • 3.6Assignment: handle Ada's requests
  • 3.99Check yourself: the rights of data subjects

4Nigeria in depth: the NDPA, the NDPC and the GAID

  • 4.1From the NDPR to the NDPA
  • 4.2The NDPC, and the people who help you comply
  • 4.3Who must register, and the duties that follow
  • 4.4What it costs, and who has already paid
  • 4.5Rights under the NDPA, and how far it reaches
  • 4.6Assignment: bring KiraPay into NDPA compliance
  • 4.99Check yourself: data protection in Nigeria

5Europe in depth: the GDPR

  • 5.1The GDPR: shape and reach
  • 5.2Moving data out of Europe, and the Schrems cases
  • 5.3Think before you process: DPIAs and records
  • 5.4The 72-hour rule
  • 5.5What breaking the GDPR costs
  • 5.6Assignment: map KiraPay's GDPR duties
  • 5.99Check yourself: the GDPR

6The wider world: a comparison of regimes

  • 6.1The United Kingdom after Brexit
  • 6.2The United States, a patchwork
  • 6.3Brazil and the LGPD
  • 6.4Africa beyond Nigeria: South Africa and Kenya
  • 6.5Asia's giants: China and India
  • 6.6Canada, and how to read any data law fast
  • 6.7Assignment: advise KiraPay on two new markets
  • 6.99Check yourself: the wider world

7Data breaches and security for the non-engineer

  • 7.1What a data breach actually is
  • 7.2How breaches really happen
  • 7.3The simple defences that stop most breaches
  • 7.4The human factor and a security culture
  • 7.5When a breach happens: the response playbook
  • 7.6Everyday security habits for the analyst
  • 7.7Assignment: handle a KiraPay breach end to end
  • 7.99Check yourself: breaches and security

8Algorithms, AI and automated decisions

  • 8.1What an algorithm and an automated decision are
  • 8.2Bias in, bias out
  • 8.3The right not to be judged by machine alone
  • 8.4When it goes wrong at scale: a real case
  • 8.5Fairness, transparency and explainability
  • 8.6Governing AI responsibly
  • 8.7Assignment: audit KiraPay's loan-scoring engine
  • 8.99Check yourself: algorithms and AI

9Ethics in practice

  • 9.1Legal is not the same as right
  • 9.2Consent as respect, and dark patterns
  • 9.3Power, and the idea of data justice
  • 9.4The ethics of re-identification
  • 9.5A method for making an ethical decision
  • 9.6The professional's responsibility
  • 9.7Assignment: resolve an ethical dilemma
  • 9.99Check yourself: ethics in practice

10Building compliance, and your career

  • 10.1Building a data protection programme
  • 10.2Privacy by design and by default
  • 10.3Your career in data protection
  • 10.4Capstone project: a compliance starter pack
  • 10.5Course final exam
Data Ethics and Protection: Law, Rights and Responsible Practice

The core principles of data protection

Check yourself: core principles

A quick self-check on the data protection principles.

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