Learning objectives
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- Understanding the purpose and meaning of legal data protection
- Know which data is protected by the Swiss Data Protection Act and the EU GDPR
- Knowledge of the most important data protection principles and their meaning and purpose
- Be able to apply the most important data protection principles to a data lifecycle
- Know what privacy by design and by default means in terms of data protection law, understand its purpose and how to implement it in practice
- Know what a privacy policy is and what its purpose and content is
- Knowledge of the right to information in the context of data protection law and how this is to be handled in practice
- Knowledge of the conditions under which data subject to data protection may be transferred abroad, with particular knowledge of the relationship between Switzerland, the EU, and the USA
- Knowledge of the legal consequences of violating Swiss data protection regulations, in general
- Know what the EU GDPR is and when it applies internationally
Assessment
Go to the intla.ch Tutor and have it quiz you on the learned content (see also Chapter 01.T intla.ch Tutor).