Privacy-by-Design Masterclass

Course: Ultimate Privacy by Design Data Protection Course (GDPR, LGPD)

Overview

You need to comply with privacy and data protection laws in your software product and the supporting operations. Getting privacy-by-design wrong is costly, because it creates friction and reduces time-to-market. It also causes technical debt. On top of that, laws around the world increasingly require you to have evidence that you practiced “privacy-by-design” and sanction non-compliance with fines.

This course teaches you how to embed privacy-by-design using sound risk management approaches and structured frameworks. The course goes beyond regulatory summaries by providing practical models such as the 7 Principles of PbD, Solove’s Taxonomy, Hoepman Strategies, and privacy-adapted FAIR analysis. It provides an actionable approach to integrating privacy into feature design, risk analysis, and decision-making.

This course is valuable for core product team members as well as roles supporting privacy from a compliance perspective. This includes:

  • Product managers, UX designers, engineers, and members of cross-functional product teams that want to understand their role in relation to privacy-by-design.
  • Privacy specialists, legal professionals, compliance/audit specialists, and Data Protection Officers that need to understand how to support privacy-by-design in product teams.
  • This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate level.

This course will help you and your team members:

  • Understand and apply the concept of privacy-by-design and different methodologies.
  • Build a privacy model for products and services and map privacy risks.
  • Use structured privacy risk analysis methods, including FAIR for privacy.
  • Apply frameworks: Cavoukian’s 7 Principles, Solove’s Taxonomy, Hoepman Strategies.
  • Translate analysis into product design and implementation to operationalize privacy-by-design.

This course consists of:

  • 5+ hours of on-demand video and 60+ short lessons.
  • No assignments or projects; content delivered through lectures and examples.
  • Includes downloadable resources and step-by-step methods.

This course will help you comply with:

  • General Data Protection Regulation (European Union): Comply with the GDPR efficiently and effectively. This course will help you comply specifically with the obligation to practice privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default (article 25), to conduct risk-based activities such as perform data protection impact assessments (article 35) and to take adequate technical and organizational measures (article 32).
  • Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (“LGPD”, Brazil): Aligns with privacy-by-design and risk-based accountability requirements.
  • California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) / California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”, USA): Helps increase efficiency of compliance with privacy laws.
  • Omnibus data protection laws in other countries around the world.
  • Designed as a methodology-focused course rather than a deep regulatory analysis.
  • The instructor brings hands-on experience from enterprise environments, including SAP, Microsoft and IBM.
  • Recently updated (February 2025) for continued relevance.