Privacy Program Management
Learn how to build, run, and protect an operational data privacy program. Master data mapping, privacy impact assessments, vendor risks, and breach response through the lens of the CIPM framework.
Like Duolingo, but for Privacy Program Management. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
24 levels across 3 sections, about 48 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Operating Day-to-Day Privacy Workflows; Managing Risk, Vendors, and Incidents; and Building Strategy and Program Governance. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Privacy Program Management
- Authentication should match the sensitivity of the data already held
- Asking for government photo IDs for low-risk accounts violates data minimization
- Confirming access via the subscriber's existing verified email is proportionate
- Personal data often lives across third-party marketing platforms, ticketing tools, and email archives
- Data access obligations cover processor systems and software-as-a-service vendors, not just local databases
- Searching only the core transactional database leaves the organization non-compliant
- Statutory tax and financial accounting retention laws override individual deletion requests
- The privacy manager must segregate or restrict data that must be kept rather than deleting it outright
- The right to erasure is conditional, not an absolute right
- Fulfilling one person's rights must not compromise the privacy rights of other individuals
- Redacting or withholding bystander and third-party personal data is required before disclosure
- Releasing unredacted mixed records creates an unauthorized data breach
- Privacy regulations impose strict statutory deadlines for answering individual rights requests
- Intake logs provide an audit trail to defend against regulatory enforcement and fines
- Tracking response clocks ensures teams request formal extensions before standard windows close
- A RoPA focuses on why personal data is used and where it flows internationally, not just server hostnames
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Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
A person asks to see their newsletter sign-up details. Why shouldn't you demand a copy of their passport?
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Where Privacy Program Management takes you
- 1
Operating Day-to-Day Privacy Workflows
- Fulfilling Individual Data Rights
- Mapping and Inventorying Personal Data
- Embedding Privacy into Product Workflows
- 2
Managing Risk, Vendors, and Incidents
- Conducting Privacy Impact Assessments
- Governing Third Parties and Vendors
- Responding to Breaches and Incidents
- 3
Building Strategy and Program Governance
- Structuring Privacy Roles and Accountability
- Measuring, Auditing, and Maturing the Program
3 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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