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Bookable Events (Update, Audit, PIA, RIPA, Security)

This page provides a description of our Update, PIA, Audit and RIPA courses and allows you to automatically book the places you need by following the “Book” link next to the event. The displayed course prices are ex VAT.

Data Protection Update

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Privacy Impact Assessment Course - London

The Privacy Impact Assessment course content covers the following questions: What is data protection? How does it differ to privacy? How does it differ from security? Why do we have to do a PIA? Practical sessions cover: how PIA relates to risk assessment: how to assess risks, how to quantify them, what countermeasures could be adopted, audit of countermeasures. The course also covers a privacy law compliance check and how that differs from a data protection compliance check. It addresses the questions How do we know what other laws to consider? Do we do a small-scale PIA or full-scale PIA? Doing a PIA in detail? What records should be kept?

Data Protection Audit course

Contents include: examination of assessments which do not involve access to personal data: management structures; Data Protection Officer status; training and staff awareness; contracts with data processors. Software. Privacy Impact Assessments. Auditing which requires access to personal data: assessment of compliance with principles (e.g. collection of personal data; legal basis of processing), notification, dealing with data subject rights, security of processing, transfers outside the EEA.

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

Contents include: Introduction to RIPA Origins in Human Rights Act; functions of RIPA; admissibility of evidence. Outline of RIPA: Interception of communications – Lawful Business Practice Regulations – Acquisition of Communications data – Surveillance and covert human intelligence sources – encrypted data – scrutiny Current developments in RIPA: Cases: Kennedy –v- The UK ECHR 18 May 2010; Paton –v- Poole Borough Council: Investigatory Powers Tribunal 29 July 2010; Home Office announce review; Commissioners’ reports. What investigatory powers do you have and where did you get them? Examples from Local Authority functions.  How RIPA Works: “conduct is lawful” – necessity for a permissible purpose - proportionality – authorisations. Case study: Paton –v- Poole Borough Council: Investigatory Powers Tribunal 29 July 2010  why spying on a family to see if they really lived in the school catchment area was an unlawful interference with the Art.8 right. Interception What is an interception of a communication - criminal offence – civil liability – Lawful Business Practice Regulations – who can get authorisations. Acquisition of communications data: What can be accessed (e.g. by Local Authorities) – from whom - permissible purposes – function of the SPOC.  Surveillance and covert human intelligence sources: Directed surveillance – intrusive surveillance – covert human intelligence sources. Authorisations and Codes of Practice: Detailed procedures for the specified activities - Code of Practice on Surveillance - Code of Practice on Covert Human Intelligence sources.  Study of requirements of the new codes, by reference to examples of particular investigations. Changes introduced by the Freedoms Bill.

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