Data Privacy Training
Before the GDPR, things were different. The GDPR's predecessor, the Data Protection Directive (DPD), was well intended but lacked the scope and teeth of the current regulation. With many countries (and U.S. states) now following in the GDPR's footsteps, complexity has only grown. The penalties for non-compliance are fines up to 4% of a parent company's global revenue. Any fine or legal action even close to this can derail a company for years.
The Privacy Group's training program can help your teams understand the principals of data privacy and avoid fines and damage to your company's brand caused by privacy violations and negative publicity.
We offer a variety of data privacy services that meet the real-world needs for every role in your company. Ranging from awareness to domain specific trainings, our services will help your teams navigate the ever-changing data privacy compliance landscape.
Does Your Team Need Data Privacy Training?
A few questions to ask yourself...
- Does your company do business in the European Economic Area (EEA) or California?
- Do you market to Europeans and do you capture explicit consent to market to them?
- Do you transfer data about living persons across international borders?
- Do you employ anyone outside the U.S (FTE or 1099)?
- Do you acquire or distribute personally identifiable information?
If you're answering yes to any of these questions, you need a plan (and we can help).
Why Are We The Right Firm To Train Your Team?
The Privacy Group believes that data privacy consultants should know something about, well, data (and privacy). We are a firm of IT professionals who moved into the privacy space to fill the void created by lawyers whose backgrounds are not in tech and security pros who privacy regulations are an afterthought for. It's one thing to know the regulations, it's another to give sound advice that doesn't involve disruptive change in your IT program. We only hire consultants with a minimum of 10 years IT experience and hold IAPP certifications. When you hire The Privacy Group, you get the firm that understands the balance between your engineering team's duties and compliance.
Data Privacy Consulting Services FAQ
Yes, we do!
Since the pandemic and with teams being distributed and working from home, we also are doing are doing trainings via web meetings and phone. Our web trainings are very engaging and have worked out very well. We try to only offer minimal training before consultations because we prefer to present scenarios specific to our client. But we do also offer awareness trainings good for gaining a high-level understanding of data privacy and how to find resources.
Ideally, yes. Data privacy is changing very fast and it's getting more and more complex. In a perfect world, every company would have a team that handles compliance but as we all know, that's not always realistic. We try to present real value to our clients by transferring knowledge during our involvement so that we don't build dependence.
Our trainings are usually done role specific. We do offer awareness trainings to jump start a privacy project but ideally, we like to talk about role specific impacts of data privacy. Anyone with access to company data or information should receive some training specific to their need.
Most regulations speak of "regular" training. Most privacy professionals agree, every year for sure but every 6 months is best to stay current. Refresher trainings are shorter and recap foundational knowledge, emphasize importance of compliance as well as introduce regulatory changes.