Privacy Regulations and Compliance Questions

Comprehensive knowledge of major data privacy laws and the practical compliance controls organizations use to meet them. Candidates should understand the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act including Protected Health Information, the Privacy Rule for permitted uses and disclosures, the Security Rule for safeguards for electronic Protected Health Information, the Breach Notification Rule, the minimum necessary principle, covered entities and business associates, authorization requirements, and enforcement consequences. They should also know the California Consumer Privacy Act including its scope for California residents and personal information, consumer rights such as the right to know, right to delete, right to opt out of sale, opt in requirements for sensitive personal information, the statutory definition of sale, distinctions between businesses and service providers, and how it differs from data protection regimes in other jurisdictions. Additionally candidates should be familiar with the General Data Protection Regulation including its scope for European Union data subjects, fundamental principles such as lawfulness fairness transparency purpose limitation data minimization accuracy and integrity and confidentiality, data subject rights including access rectification erasure restriction and portability, lawful bases for processing, roles and responsibilities such as Data Protection Officers, Data Protection Impact Assessments and when they are required, mechanisms for international data transfers, and penalties and enforcement approaches. Finally candidates should be able to discuss privacy by design and by default, data mapping and inventory, consent and notice mechanisms, handling of data subject access and deletion requests, incident response and breach notification timelines, vendor and contractor management, technical and organizational safeguards such as encryption and access controls, retention and disposal policies, and considerations when multiple laws apply to the same data or processing activity.