Personal data protection

Personal Data Protection (Law of the Kyrgyz Republic No. 58)

Course code: BTA-401

Title: Personal Data Protection (Law of the Kyrgyz Republic No. 58)

Course length: 10 (ten) academic hours / 8.00 CPE Hours

Audience: Personal data protection officers (specialists), information security department specialists, novice specialists in the field of information security or personal data protection

Preliminary desirable requirements: knowledge of the basics of industry legislation and international standards in the field of personal data protection, information technology, and information security; understanding of the principles of operation and construction of information systems and data transmission networks; understanding of the principles of information processing.

Course program:

  • Concepts of data confidentiality
    • History of the issue
    • Overview of legislation:
      1. European Union (GDPR)
      2. Kyrgyz Republic (Law 58)
      3. Russia (Federal Law 152)
      4. California, USA (CCPA)
    • General concepts of data privacy
    • Types of personal information
    • Special types of personal information: ethnicity, political/religious/philosophical views, sexual orientation, medical data
  • Policy
    • Data privacy framework
    • The best policy is not to collect excessive amounts of personal data
    • Informed consent for data collection, storage, and transfer
    • Verified destruction of personal data
    • Data protection officer
    • Policy development, self-assessment, implementation, and monitoring
  • Data privacy in the development process
    • Individual design concepts
    • Information systems designed for personal data
    • Control measures and principles
    • Examples of use for proper access, storage, encryption, and data transfer
  • Data portability and cross-border data transfer
    • Storage and access to personal data outside the country: in the cloud, on social networks, on your own foreign server, in a shared foreign service
    • Best practices and cross-border cooperation
  • Responsibility for data protection
    • Data protection in healthcare
    • Data protection in financial institutions
    • Data protection in telecommunications
    • Data protection in government agencies
    • Control over your own private information