Check Your Understanding and Next Steps

Can everyone in the project team answer these questions?

Expected result of Task 1: all project team members understand the key data protection terms and principles that the following workshops build on.

Quick check

  • An Excel export lists employee numbers and sick days, but no names. Is this personal data? Is it sensitive?
  • Your payroll provider calculates salaries for you. Controller or processor?
  • Marketing wants to keep all leads "forever, just in case". Which principles are affected?
  • A report shows "2 customers of our smallest branch complained". Is it anonymous?
  • Your CRM runs on a cloud service hosted in another country. Is this a transfer, and what do you need?
  • Which authority supervises you in Switzerland, and what is the maximum sanction?

Complete the task in ResGuard

  • Open Data Protection Workshop 1 in the Task Manager and select the task Data Protection Fundamentals
  • Attach evidence: participant list, these slides and the answers to the quick check
  • Record open questions as comments or new tasks with an owner
  • Set the task to completed
  • Next: Task 2 — Identify Applicable Data Protection Laws, starting with Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP / nDSG), revised version in force since 1 September 2023
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