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    • G

      Google Cloud

      Securing Cloud Applications with Identity Aware Proxy (IAP) using Zero-Trust

      Skills you'll gain: Google App Engine, Application Deployment, Zero Trust Network Access, Cloud Security, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Applications, Identity and Access Management, Data Access

      Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      C

      Codio

      Understanding ISO Security Standards for Your Organization

      Skills you'll gain: ISO/IEC 27001, Risk Management, Personally Identifiable Information, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Business Risk Management, Security Controls, Security Awareness, Information Privacy, Security Management, Information Systems Security

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
      ·
      41 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      E

      EIT Digital

      Standardisation & Technology

      Skills you'll gain: Technical Standard, Data Ethics, Interoperability, Emerging Technologies, Information Privacy, Governance, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
      ·
      53 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • U

      Universidad Nacional de Colombia

      Identidad digital: ¿Cómo tener visibilidad académica?

      Skills you'll gain: Research, Personally Identifiable Information, Science and Research, User Accounts, Ethical Standards And Conduct, Higher Education, Information Privacy, Data Validation, Digital Communications, Data Entry

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
      ·
      9 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: New
      New
      Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      M

      MedCerts

      Medical Administrative Assistants and the Healthcare Team

      Skills you'll gain: Medical Records, Medical Office Procedures, Health Information Management, Patient Coordination, Patient Registration, Care Coordination, Practice Management Software, Medical Billing and Coding, Medical Privacy, Emergency Response, Health Care Administration, Healthcare Industry Knowledge

      4.9
      Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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      13 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      I

      ISC2

      ISC2 Healthcare Certificate

      Skills you'll gain: Continuous Monitoring, Medical Privacy, Personally Identifiable Information, Risk Management, Health Information Management, Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance, Information Privacy, Health Care Procedure and Regulation, Risk Analysis, Health Care, Patient Safety, Security Awareness, Data Security, Cybersecurity, ISO/IEC 27001, Medical Records, Healthcare Industry Knowledge, Security Controls, Information Assurance

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
      ·
      6 reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      U

      University of Colorado Boulder

      Cybersecurity for Data Science

      Skills you'll gain: Data Security, Cybersecurity, Cyber Attacks, Data Ethics, Authentications, Information Assurance, Authorization (Computing), Cryptography, Human Factors (Security), Security Controls, Information Privacy, Computer Security Incident Management, Technical Communication

      Build toward a degree

      3.6
      Rating, 3.6 out of 5 stars
      ·
      26 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: New
      New
      Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
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      MedCerts

      Medical Administrative Assistants and Office Procedures

      Skills you'll gain: Medical Privacy, Medical Office Procedures, Medical Records, Health Information Management and Medical Records, Electronic Medical Record, Patient Registration, Medical History Documentation, Practice Management Software, Health Informatics, Record Keeping, Hospital Admissions, Health Care Procedure and Regulation, Patient Preparation, Records Management, File Management, Information Privacy

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      15 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      A

      Arizona State University

      Information Gathering and Vetting

      Skills you'll gain: Research, Data Collection, Investigation, Scientific Methods, Research Methodologies, Persuasive Communication, Data Analysis, Information Management

      4
      Rating, 4 out of 5 stars
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      7 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      G

      Google Cloud

      Responsible AI for Developers

      Skills you'll gain: Information Privacy, Generative AI, Data Ethics, Google Cloud Platform, Personally Identifiable Information, Applied Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, Cloud Security, Testability, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Safety and Security, Machine Learning, Interoperability, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Tensorflow, Machine Learning Methods, Encryption, Open Source Technology, Technical Communication

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
      ·
      20 reviews

      Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    • G

      Google Cloud

      Data Loss Prevention: Qwik Start - JSON

      Skills you'll gain: Data Loss Prevention, Personally Identifiable Information, Information Privacy, Data Security, Cloud API, Google Cloud Platform, Data Cleansing, Unstructured Data

      Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

    • Status: Free Trial
      Free Trial
      I

      Infosec

      Laravel Protections

      Skills you'll gain: Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks, Secure Coding, Application Security, Encryption, Security Controls, Data Security, Hardening, Database Application, Web Servers, Web Applications, Cryptography, Data Encryption Standard, Authentications, SQL, Data Validation

      4.4
      Rating, 4.4 out of 5 stars
      ·
      9 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular privacy courses

    • Securing Cloud Applications with Identity Aware Proxy (IAP) using Zero-Trust: Google Cloud
    • Understanding ISO Security Standards for Your Organization: Codio
    • Standardisation & Technology: EIT Digital
    • Identidad digital: ¿Cómo tener visibilidad académica?: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    • Medical Administrative Assistants and the Healthcare Team: MedCerts
    • ISC2 Healthcare Certificate: ISC2
    • Cybersecurity for Data Science: University of Colorado Boulder
    • Medical Administrative Assistants and Office Procedures: MedCerts
    • Information Gathering and Vetting: Arizona State University
    • Responsible AI for Developers: Google Cloud

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    Information Security (10)
    Application Programming Interfaces (8)
    Kubernetes (8)
    Web (8)

    Frequently Asked Questions about Privacy

    Privacy is protection from unwanted interference or intrusion, including boundaries against unwanted access to our bodies and possessions as well as against surveillance of our communications and information. It is recognized as an important, fundamental right in many countries, enshrined in the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as well as in the European Convention on Human Rights.

    Information privacy issues have become especially prominent in recent decades, as the internet has made it possible - and, in many cases, very profitable - for businesses, governments, and other actors to harness the enormous amounts of personal data we generate every day through our activities online and on our smartphones. While the algorithms and data science of the big data era have produced incredibly valuable applications that enrich our lives in many ways, there are also growing concerns surrounding the challenges of preventing our data from being used by companies in unauthorized or unethical ways.

    For tech companies, privacy and information ethics isn’t just an abstract discussion. As privacy law has caught up with the digital age, companies now face serious regulatory compliance requirements in this area, as well as potential civil and even criminal liabilities from the misuse of personal data. As importantly, breaches of privacy and the trust of your users can turn a data management failure into a brand management catastrophe, as companies perceived to have untrustworthy privacy practices can suffer enormous damage to their public reputation.‎

    An understanding of the issues surrounding information and data privacy is essential to many types of careers in the tech industry. Data engineers, data scientists, and software developers must be careful about how they utilize user data when building applications; cybersecurity experts are responsible for ensuring that personal information is protected from hackers and other malicious actors; and tech CEOs must guide their companies to adopt the right information ethics practices or else face major reputational risks.

    Lawyers working in the tech industry must have a particularly sharp background in privacy law, and a growing number of lawyers are specializing in privacy issues given rising demand in tech and other sectors for expertise in this area. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, lawyers earned a median annual salary of $122,960 in 2019.‎

    Certainly. As the world’s leading online learning platform, Coursera has a wide variety of popular courses on computer science as well as the law, as well as courses on privacy that sit at the intersection of both. You can learn about privacy from top-ranked universities like University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University, or from institutions like EIT Digital, a leading European digital innovation and education organization. And, since you can view course materials and complete assignments on a flexible schedule, you can learn about privacy issues alongside your current studies or career.‎

    If you know what a digital footprint is and have left and tried to manage tracks and traces of your activity through social media accounts, tagged images, professional presences, and other online artifacts, you may have some of the basic skills needed to study privacy. If you have a basic understanding of what cryptography means and what it’s used to achieve, you have another bit of the skills needed to learn privacy.‎

    The kind of people best suited for roles in privacy understands the impact that information sharing and dissemination have on today’s society. This type of person will want to develop a way of thinking that is security-oriented, a better understanding of how to think about adversaries, and how to build systems that defend against them. People well suited for roles in privacy will be able to understand the fine print of terms and services that often are found on software, app, and other data-gathering products.‎

    Someone who has studied privacy can choose the path of information systems auditing to manage an organization’s systems that oversee data privacy, information security, and governmental regulations. People who have studied privacy can choose a career path with a software company that mines user data. Other common career paths for someone who has studied privacy could be in law or in government where a privacy specialist can protect and secure important intellectual property and personal and financial information.‎

    The many topics you can study that are related to privacy include big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to understand how privacy and ethical issues affect how businesses implement algorithms and how they affect a user’s privacy and transparency. You can also study social psychology to understand human behavior and decision-making strategies.‎

    The types of places that may hire someone who has studied privacy include health care and insurance companies that need to create secure and private health care data for patients and health care professionals. Corporations and organizations with sensitive information, such as financial, banking, and credit card companies need to hire people with a background in privacy to implement and maintain information systems (IS) technologies for data security for not only brick-and-mortar institutions but also for virtual banking.‎

    Online Privacy courses offer a convenient and flexible way to enhance your knowledge or learn new Privacy skills. Choose from a wide range of Privacy courses offered by top universities and industry leaders tailored to various skill levels.‎

    When looking to enhance your workforce's skills in Privacy, it's crucial to select a course that aligns with their current abilities and learning objectives. Our Skills Dashboard is an invaluable tool for identifying skill gaps and choosing the most appropriate course for effective upskilling. For a comprehensive understanding of how our courses can benefit your employees, explore the enterprise solutions we offer. Discover more about our tailored programs at Coursera for Business here.‎

    This FAQ content has been made available for informational purposes only. Learners are advised to conduct additional research to ensure that courses and other credentials pursued meet their personal, professional, and financial goals.

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