About the course:

Data breaches and privacy violations can harm individuals, damage trust, and have severe consequences for organizations. This training will empower you to understand, respect, and uphold data privacy in your everyday professional activities. Hence, protecting personal and organizational data is not just a legal obligation, but it is a fundamental responsibility.

As per the 2024 EY Human Risk in Cybersecurity Survey, 62% of the respondents say that their employers have prioritized education about responsible data usage. This course shall equip you with the required knowledge and skills needed to navigate through ethical dilemmas effectively and will help promote a culture of accountability within your organization. 

EY’s Forensic & Integrity Services practice has supported various clients and has assisted them in being able to manage their data protection and data privacy programs more effectively such that, they are guided to prevent, detect, and train their employees on the most vulnerable scenarios. 

Leveraging our experience and understanding of the leading practices in this domain, through our in-house industry professionals, we have designed this training program that aims at enhancing your understanding of data privacy compliance requirements.

In addition to some theoretical aspects, the training program will also enable you to get familiarized with ongoing trends and various aspects of data privacy. 

Course benefits:

• Understanding of basic concepts pertaining to data privacy and data protection
• Familiarizing yourself with Indian Data Protection Law and its salient features
• Understanding various duties and obligations relating to Data Fiduciaries and Data Principals
• Awareness to manage day-to-day situations involving data handling and guidance on how to protect it
• Knowledge Assessment to validate understanding

Who should take this course:

• Compliance and ethics professional
• Professionals working across all functions 
• Aspirants of compliance functions

Course coverage

This Data privacy awareness online training program covers the following aspects:-

• Introduction to concepts pertaining to data privacy and data protection
• Journey of Digital Persosnal Data Protection Act, 2023 
• Understanding about Data Fiduciaries and Significant Data Fiduciaries and their respective obligations
• Data breach and its impact
• The course includes interactive exercises, activities, case studies, and both animated and text-based ethical dilemma scenarios to enhance understanding of the nuances and reinforce learning.

Terms and Conditions

Please note the following terms and conditions for taking this course:

• This course does not include exhaustive content pertaining to topic ‘Data Privacy and Protection’
• The content included in the course is only relevant to India, hence only learners from India are eligible to take this course. 
• This course is to share knowledge w.r.t. what data privacy is and is not a certification. 
• Please refer to the applicable legislation or law or your organisation’s policies and seek professional guidance and opinion before taking any action. 
• The course contents is updated until December 31,2024 w.r.t. relevant provisions or amendments of Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act.
• This course is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as professional or legal advice in any form or manner. 
• This course is intended to provide a general guidance and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity.  
• While every attempt is made to ensure that the information contained in this material is up to date, it should not be regarded as comprehensive, exhaustive or sufficient to take decisions.
• The case studies, videos or questions included in the courses are hypothetical in nature and any resemblance with real life, is purely coincidental. 
• All titles and intellectual property rights of these course(s) are owned by Ernst & Young LLP, India (“EY”). All such rights are reserved, remain vested in EY and are not being transferred in any manner. EY does not accept any liability or responsibility for any actions taken based on the information provided in this course.
• No portion of this course content may be reproduced in any form, in whole or in part, for any purpose without prior written permission of EY. 
• No part of the course contents shall be stored in any form including electronic knowledge-base, or data retrieval system, etc. without prior written permission of EY. 
• In case you need to use this material, or there is a need for customization of any part of this training module, please send us an email with the details of your requirement on EYelearning.forensics@in.ey.com
• Please do not proceed with the course if the above terms and conditions are not acceptable.