Course Type
Learn online in your own time, and at your own pace via our eLearning platform.
Duration
24 hours worth of learning broken down into bite-sized lessons. Each lesson follows 5/2/2 learning principles.
- 5 minutes of content delivery (video or case scenario).
- 2 minutes of active engagement or activity (tasks and quizzes).
- 2 minutes for learners to repeat or reflect on what they’ve learnt (tasks and quizzes).
Certification
6 CEU’s, Certificate of Completion & Virtual eLearning Badge
Course Type
Led by a live instructor, learn virtually (via Microsoft Teams) alongside a small group of other students.
Please Note
This Course Type is not currently offered in this region. Please register your interest for this Type of course.
If you’re looking for something more bespoke; if you need to educate a group of people; or if you’d like to schedule in some face-to-face, on-site training, please do contact us.
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Course Overview
Agenda:
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Case Studies and Individual Harms
- Approaches
- Solutions
The course will cover the following topics:
- Ethics vs Law
- Fairness, responsibility, respect human rights
- Balance between innovation/benefit
- Proactive rather than reactive
- Exercise: Care. Data
- Harms
- Example: Unintended behaviours
- Example: Lack of foresight
- Example: Difficulty of oversight
- Example: Distributed responsibility
- Risk – Financial, Privacy, Human health, Dignity and Reputation
- Example: Facial recognition
- Deontology (data scientists), Autonomy, Beneficence, Justice,
- Consequentialism (data subjects)
- Environmental approach
- Needs of many vs needs of one
- GDPR, EU law, individual's vs groups
- Big Data
- Example: Do we need group privacy rights as well as individual ones?
- Automation and Technology
- Algorithms
- Mathematical construct
- Implementation
- Configuration
- Example and Case Scenarios
- Epistemic – Quality
- Normative – Effect
- Traceability – Input to output
- Accountability
- Opacity
- Interpretability – Humans don't think as computers do, how do computers tag images?
- Accessibility – Secret sauce, willingness and technology barrier
- Provenance – Collection, limitations, gaps, labels and bias
- Machine Bias – Examples and Case Scenarios
- Accountability
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
- Privacy by Design (PbD) – Example
Learning Objectives
What you will learn from the course:
- To gain an understanding of the ethical considerations around the use, collection and utilisation of data from a wider perspective.
- To gain an understanding the ethical considerations of information sharing, discrimination and bias in artificial intelligence and algorithms.
- To understand the needs of the individual and the ethical considerations in the development, collection and usage of data.
- To discuss actions taken with good intentions but vastly unethical.
- How to find a balance between different values and ethical standpoints, delivering for your organisation whilst minimising harms to the individual.
Who is this course for?
No matter the size of organisation, role or position. If you are in a situation where you are responsible for the design of products and services, or the management of information and data then this course will give you a greater understanding of the topic.
Job titles:
- Directors
- Privacy Officers
- Information Governance Managers
- Data Protection Officers
- IT security practitioners
- Any professional working in Information management.
Exclusions
This course covers the difference between Data Ethics, the Law and Risk Management, and so does not cover a set of rules to apply to data like we see in Data Protection law courses.
Suggested Follow on Courses
- Data Protection Impact Assessment
- Certificate in Managing Data Protection Compliance
- Microsoft 365 Teams Information Protection
- Microsoft 365 Information Privacy & Protection
Payment Options
Don’t know what courses you’ll need to book just yet?
For our instructor-led courses we offer a pre-pay option, where you can pay now and choose what courses to book later (within a year). This option is both cost efficient and speeds up the booking process. It’s really handy for large companies/organisations who have frequent training needs. eLearning not included.
Need training for a group of people?
If you’re looking to train a small group, a whole team, or an entire company of employees, please get in touch as we’re able to offer discounts on multiples.








