Purpose and overview

From 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies. This means that from this date the same privacy legislation applies in the entire European Union. The Dutch Data Protection Act (Wbp) will no longer apply from this date.

What will change?

The GDPR will, among other things:

• strengthen and expand privacy rights;
• expand the scope of responsibilities for organisations;
• provide the same robust powers for all European privacy regulators, such as the power to impose fines of up to € 20 million.

The GDPR also has significant consequences for the work of researchers. This abridged online module tells you about the changes in about 20 minutes.

Purpose

The purpose of this module is threefold:

• to learn how to work safely as researcher;
• to become familiar with the steps you can take to comply with the GDPR;
• to know where you can get more training or information if you want to learn more.

Target audience

This module has been developed for researchers who are associated with a university or a university of applied sciences.

Summary

In this abridged module, you will learn what you can do as a researcher to increase the privacy of data subjects involved in a study and how to do that. More detailed information about the topics covered here can be found in the standard online module 'Privacy in Research'.

Duration

The entire module takes about 20 minutes to complete.