Data Privacy Fundamentals
About this Course
Learn about privacy from 5 prominent cases of data breaches from 2012 to 2015, which highlight vulnerabilities in typical organizations.
- Get an outline of data privacy laws.
- Walk away with some guiding principles for how to stay out of trouble.
- Knowing how to hack a colleague’s password will raise some ethical questions. Justify your decisions in the course exam.
Course Syllabus
Module 1:
- An overview of privacy laws in Canada
- Case Study: Student loans data breach (Canada) – A breach involving the personal information of about more than half a million clients of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and 250 departmental employees
Module 2:
- An overview of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
- Case Study: Target Corp. (USA) – A data breach involving information on 40 million payment cards (i.e., credit, debit, and ATM cards) and personally identifiable information (PII) on 70 million customers
Module 3
- Dr. Ann Cavoukian’s 7 Foundational Principles of ‘Privacy by Design’
- Case Study: Think W3 (UK) – A data breach involving 1.2 million credit and debit card details
- Case Study: Doritex Corp. (USA) – A data breach exposed the social security numbers of over 500 job applicants
Module 4
- Data breaches and passwords
- Case Study: Home Depot (USA) – A data breach estimated to have put payment card information at risk for approximately 56 million unique payment cards
- Class Participation Questionnaire
Recommended skills prior to taking this course
- None
Grading scheme
- The minimum passing mark for the course is 60%, where the review questions are worth 40% and the final exam is worth 60% of the course mark.
- You have 1 attempt to take the exam with multiple attempts per question.
Requirements
None.
