Privacy Management & Data Protection Topics
Privacy compliance, data protection frameworks, privacy incident investigation, and regulatory requirements. Covers privacy impact assessments, data classification, regulatory interpretation, and privacy-first operational practices.
Confidentiality and Privacy in Human Resources
Handling and protecting HR sensitive information including medical records, investigation materials, disciplinary records, and other personnel data. Topics include access controls and role based restrictions for HR systems, privacy by design for HR workflows, relevant regulations such as HIPAA where applicable, differentiating between general employee information and sensitive records, secure storage and retention policies, and minimizing risk when sharing or processing personnel data.
Ethical Judgment and Confidentiality
Assesses ethical decision making and stewardship of sensitive personnel information. Topics include identifying what information is private, applying confidentiality safeguards, balancing transparency with privacy and fairness, documenting decisions while protecting personal data, escalating to legal or senior leaders when appropriate, avoiding conflicts of interest, and mitigating bias and retaliation risks. Candidates should be able to describe concrete examples where they applied judgment in ambiguous cases and explain the reasoning and outcomes.
Data Security Privacy and Governance
Data centric considerations covering classification, governance, protection, and quality. Topics include data classification and labeling, encryption strategies and key management for stored and in transit data, data residency and sovereignty requirements, privacy regulations and compliance, data lifecycle and retention policies, access controls and delegation, data governance frameworks, addressing shadow information technology and data mobility, and practical data quality concerns and how they interact with privacy and access controls.
Data Privacy and Compliance
Covers principles, frameworks, and operational practices for managing personal and sensitive data in compliance with law and ethics across contexts such as research and marketing. Topics include regulatory regimes and requirements for data protection, privacy by design, consent management and informed consent procedures, rights subject mechanisms including data access and deletion requests, data retention and deletion policies, deidentification and pseudonymization techniques, Institutional Review Board and research ethics considerations, vendor and third party data processing agreements, auditing and compliance monitoring of systems, privacy impact and risk assessments, secure data storage and access controls, breach response and notification processes, and how platform and marketing technology capabilities affect compliance. Candidates should be able to explain both conceptual requirements and practical implementation tradeoffs when applying privacy and compliance controls in research operations and marketing technology stacks.
Employee Data Privacy and Governance
Focuses on secure handling and governance of employee and people data to meet privacy and regulatory obligations. Topics include data protection laws and regulations, data classification, access controls, data retention and deletion policies, consent and lawful basis, cross border data transfers, audit and monitoring, data accuracy and quality, incident response for data breaches, and training for HR teams. Candidates should articulate how to build data governance frameworks that balance analytics and decision making with privacy and security requirements.