Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data
All processing of personal data must comply with the GDPR’s legal bases and be properly documented by your organisation. As employees often launch new projects or processes involving personal data, it is important to understand these legal requirements to ensure compliance. This training will guide you through the legal bases for handling both non-sensitive and sensitive personal data, offering practical examples relevant to different workplace scenarios.
5 mins · 4 Lessons · 4 Quizzes
Awareness Training
Course Content
Introduction to Legal Bases
Any organization’s processing of personal data must have a legal basis. Therefore, it is useful for all employees to understand this, which is the topic introduced in this short lesson.
The 6 Legal Bases of the GDPR
In the previous lesson, we established the importance of knowing the legal bases for processing personal data. In this lesson we will review the 6 legal bases of the GDPR for processing personal data.
Sensitive Personal Data and Your Legal Bases
In another training, we explored the two categories of personal data: ‘non-sensitive’ and ‘sensitive’ personal data. This distinction is important because processing sensitive personal data is prohibited unless stringent conditions are met.
Legal Bases in Different Teams
This training ends with an exploration of examples showing how legal bases can be relevant to different teams within a company, such as Marketing, HR, and IT.
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What is Personal Data?
Understanding GDPR compliance starts with knowing when you handle personal data in your job. Knowing what counts as personal data helps you prevent wrong handling of such data. This knowledge is key to helping your company become GDPR compliant and more trustworthy.
Categories of Personal Data
In the training “What is Personal Data?” we defined personal data, but did not distinguish between the different categories of personal data. In this training, you will learn about these different categories of personal data and the nuances that distinguish non-sensitive from sensitive personal data.
Data Breaches
You must understand what personal data breaches are to be able to identify if they happen.