The State of GDPR: Common Questions and Misperceptions
by Troy Hunt and John Elliott
In this course, you’ll learn how to distinguish fact from misperception when it comes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and get answers to many commonly asked GDPR questions.
What you'll learn
In this course, The State of GDPR: Common Questions and Misperceptions, John Elliott and Troy Hunt discuss the common misperceptions that surround the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and address many of the questions the regulation has raised since it went into effect. Learn the objectives of GDPR, how organizations are accountable for data, the rights of the data subject, and the global impacts of the regulation. By the end of this course, you’ll have a better understanding of both the purpose and scope of GDPR.
About the authors
Troy Hunt is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security, an ASPInsider, and a full time Author for Pluralsight—a leader in online training for technology and creative professionals. Troy has been building software for browsers since the very early days of the web and possesses an exceptional ability to distill complex subjects into relatable
explanations. This has led Troy to become an industry thought leader in the security space and produce more than twenty top-rated courses ... morefor Pluralsight. Currently, Troy is heavily involved in Have I been pwned? (HIBP) a free service that aggregates data breaches and helps people establish potential impacts from malicious web activity. Troy blogs regularly about web security and is a frequent speaker at industry
conferences across the globe and throughout the media to discuss a wide range of technologies. Troy has been featured in a number of articles with publications including Forbes, TIME magazine, Mashable, PCWorld, ZDNet and Yahoo! Tech. Aside from technology and security, Troy is an avid snowboarder, windsurfer and tennis player
John Elliott is a specialist in regulated security and data protection. His fascination is the way that people engage with security directives: whether that’s a company following external regulation, an information security team developing policies, an IT team following them, or a colleague who is just trying to do their job securely.
John has led information security and data protection functions in aviation and financial services. He’s represented both Visa Europe and Mastercard on the PCI S... moreecurity Standards Council, and contributed to many of the PCI standards including PCI DSS v4.
He has LLM in Information Rights Law and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society - the Chartered Institute for IT.