These days, pretty much every industry uses and stores some kind of data, so you need to think very carefully about how to protect it. Just running a garage business on the World Wide Web can see you handling personal data from the other side of the planet.

The problem is, data protection laws are different the world over. And when you do business in global markets, data regularly travels across borders. So, how do you deal with that? Well, while rules and regulations might change from country to country, techniques you can use to protect data remain largely the same.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Recognize some of the differences in data protection laws worldwide
• Describe how data can be used
• Apply data protection techniques

Why take this course?

No matter your industry, if you work with data, then you need to know how to protect it and what the consequences might be if you don’t. This course will show you some of the differences in data protection laws around the world, explain the ways you can protect data, and show you how to put data protection laws into practice.