Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT)

Data protection authorities around the globe are enforcing regulations that mandate how data can be captured, stored and used. This makes technology, data and other professionals with dual literacy in both privacy and technology essential components to ensure operations meet privacy goals and mitigate risks.

The IAPP Privacy in Technology training - Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) - provides participants with the knowledge to recognise privacy threats and skills to apply technical strategies to mitigate privacy risk throughout the software and systems development lifecycles.

The CIPT certification covers the following body of knowledge:
• Foundational Principles
(a) Privacy Risk Models and Frameworks
(b) Privacy by Design Foundational Principles
(c) Value Sensitive Design
(d) The Data Life Cycle
• The Role of IT in Privacy
(a) Fundamentals of privacy-related IT
(b) Information Security
(c) The privacy responsibilities of the IT professional
• Privacy Threats and Violations
(a) During Data Collection
(b) During Use
(c) During Dissemination
(d) Intrusion, Decisional Interference and Self Representation
(e) Software Security
• Technical Measures and Privacy Enhancing Technologies
(a) Data Oriented Strategies
(b) Techniques
(c) Process Oriented Strategies
• Privacy Engineering
(a) The Privacy Engineering role in the organisation
(b) Privacy Engineering Objectives
(c) Privacy Design Patterns
(d) Privacy Risks in Software
• Privacy by Design Methodology
(a) The Privacy by Design Process
(b) Ongoing Vigilance
• Technology Challenges for Privacy
(a) Automated decision making
(b) Tracking and Surveillance
(c) Anthropomorphism
(d) Ubiquitous computing
(e) Mobile Social Computing

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