From the course: Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) Cert Prep: 6 Privacy Operational Life Cycle: Respond

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Legal compliance

Legal compliance

- In our CIPM course on the privacy program framework you learned about many of the laws governing the ways that organizations collect, store, process, and use personally identifiable information or PII. Those laws protect the rights of the data subject, the person who's described in the PII. The rights granted by each law vary between jurisdictions and data types, so privacy professionals should be aware of the broad principles that many of these laws share. Additionally, many organizations choose to go above and beyond statutory requirements to demonstrate concern for the privacy rights of individuals. In general, legal compliance imposes five categories of requirements on organizations: Preventing harm to data subjects limiting the collection of personal information providing accountability for data controllers and processors monitoring and enforcing compliance with requirements and requiring reporting of privacy incidents.…

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