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Prepare your team for the privacy and AI governance obligations auditors actually check.

37 interactive exercises across 3 courses on GDPR, the EU AI Act, and OWASP privacy risks. Free to play, no sign-up required.

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GDPR Compliance

11 exercises

Marketing Consent Management

Build compliant opt-in flows that regulators accept.

  • Apply GDPR Article 7 consent standards
  • Design proper consent withdrawal mechanisms
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Data Breach Response

Triage a breach and meet the 72-hour notification clock.

  • Apply Article 33 notification requirements
  • Assess breach severity and reporting thresholds
  • Draft a supervisory authority notification
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Privacy by Design Review

Evaluate a product feature through a privacy-first lens.

  • Apply Article 25 data minimization checks
  • Identify privacy gaps in product designs
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Legitimate DSAR Processing

Process a data subject access request end to end.

  • Verify requester identity under Article 15
  • Search and compile data across systems
  • Meet the 30-day response deadline
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PII Document Redaction

Redact personal data from documents before disclosure.

  • Strip PII from text and metadata layers
  • Avoid recoverable redaction failures
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Fraudulent DSAR Detection

Spot fake data access requests used for social engineering.

  • Identify fraudulent DSAR indicators
  • Apply Article 12(6) refusal grounds
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Third-Party Data Processor Vetting

Evaluate a vendor's data processing controls before signing.

  • Review DPA terms against Article 28
  • Assess sub-processor chains and controls
  • Apply vendor risk scoring frameworks
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Security Incident Response

Coordinate security and privacy teams during a live breach.

  • Run parallel security and privacy workstreams
  • Triage breach severity for Article 33 reporting
  • Apply IBM-benchmarked IR plan savings
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Cross-Border Data Transfers

Navigate transfer mechanisms for data leaving the EEA.

  • Select the right transfer mechanism (SCCs, BCRs)
  • Conduct a Transfer Impact Assessment
  • Apply Schrems II safeguard requirements
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Data Protection Impact Assessment

Run a DPIA for a high-risk data processing activity.

  • Identify Article 35 DPIA triggers
  • Apply structured risk assessment methodology
  • Document DPO consultation outcomes
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Data Mapping and Records of Processing

Build an Article 30 processing register from scratch.

  • Conduct cross-department data flow interviews
  • Create a compliant Records of Processing register
  • Map data flows across systems and vendors
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EU AI Act Compliance

16 exercises

AI Literacy Essentials

Earn the AI literacy required by Article 4 before touching company AI tools.

  • Apply Article 4 AI literacy requirements
  • Spot AI hallucinations and confabulations
  • Protect company data inside AI chatbots
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AI Risk Classification

Sort real AI deployments into the four EU AI Act risk tiers.

  • Apply Article 5 and Annex III correctly
  • Distinguish high-risk from limited-risk systems
  • Document classification reasoning for audit
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Prohibited AI Practices

Stop banned AI deployments before they go live.

  • Recognize the six Article 5 prohibitions
  • Push back on consent-based exception arguments
  • Escalate prohibited practices to legal and DPO
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High-Risk AI Deployer Obligations

Block a high-risk AI launch with compliance gaps in any of seven areas.

  • Run an Article 26 deployer compliance review
  • Verify human oversight, not just accuracy
  • Demand a FRIA before first use
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Provider vs. Deployer Responsibilities

A compliant vendor product does not make your deployment compliant.

  • Map provider vs. deployer obligations
  • Read vendor conformity assessments critically
  • Plan deployer-side controls during procurement
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AI Transparency and Disclosure

Label AI chatbots and synthetic media correctly under Article 50.

  • Apply Article 50 chatbot disclosure rules
  • Tag AI-generated, AI-assisted, and synthetic media
  • Distinguish disclosure obligations from optional labels
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Meaningful Human Oversight

Override an AI loan recommendation when the evidence does not match.

  • Resist automation bias on every decision
  • Apply independent judgment under Article 14
  • Escalate suspect AI outputs through real authority
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AI Data Governance

Block AI training that uses a leaky, biased, or oversharing dataset.

  • Apply Article 10 training data standards
  • Find data leakage that inflates accuracy
  • Enforce data minimization across the pipeline
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AI and Data Protection

Run a healthcare AI through both EU AI Act and GDPR at once.

  • Stack EU AI Act and GDPR obligations together
  • Apply Article 22 to automated triage decisions
  • Run a DPIA and a FRIA in parallel
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AI Bias and Discrimination

Investigate proxy variables hiding inside a resume-screening model.

  • Read demographic parity and equalized odds metrics
  • Trace proxy variables creating indirect discrimination
  • Suspend a biased high-risk model rather than tune it
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Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment

Run a FRIA before a social housing AI ever assigns a benefit decision.

  • Apply Article 27 to a high-risk deployment
  • Separate FRIA scope from a GDPR DPIA
  • Define monitoring measures and review cadence
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AI Incident Reporting

Report a discriminatory AI rejection pattern under Article 62.

  • Apply the Article 62 serious-incident threshold
  • Contain, investigate, then file inside the deadline
  • Resist vendor pressure to delay the report
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AI Governance in Your Organization

Build an AI registry and shut down shadow AI in your company.

  • Stand up an AI systems registry from scratch
  • Assign system owners and compliance duties
  • Address shadow AI as a governance failure
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General-Purpose AI Model Obligations

Map GPAI provider and downstream deployer duties for systemic-risk models.

  • Tell baseline GPAI from systemic-risk GPAI
  • Read training data summaries critically
  • Follow value-chain duties to your deployer obligations
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Using AI Tools Responsibly at Work

Make compliant AI choices through a normal working day.

  • Use only approved AI tools with valid DPAs
  • Classify data before pasting it into any AI
  • Disclose AI assistance in your deliverables
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EU AI Act Penalties and Enforcement

Map the three-tier penalty structure to real enforcement scenarios.

  • Apply the right penalty tier to each violation
  • Separate AI Office and national authority roles
  • Understand personal liability for individuals
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OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks

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Privacy Breach Through Application Vulnerabilities

Discover a web application vulnerability that silently leaks personal data through error messages and insecure API responses.

  • Detect personal data exposure in application error messages and API responses
  • Trace how a broken access control flaw enables mass extraction of user records
  • Apply secure coding verification checks that prevent privacy-impacting vulnerabilities
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Internal Data Leakage to Unauthorized Parties

Contain a data leakage incident where customer PII reaches unauthorized vendors through misconfigured file sharing.

  • Trace how misconfigured access controls route sensitive data to unauthorized recipients
  • Identify personal data exposure in shared documents, exports, and collaboration tools
  • Apply data loss prevention controls that catch PII before it leaves authorized boundaries
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Handling a Personal Data Breach

Manage a data breach where your organization must contain the leak, notify regulators, and inform affected individuals under tight deadlines.

  • Execute a breach response timeline from detection through containment to regulatory notification
  • Identify failures in breach response that increase regulatory penalties and user harm
  • Apply structured incident response procedures that meet GDPR 72-hour notification requirements
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Consent Dark Patterns and Bundled Permissions

Fix a sign-up form that bundles multiple consent purposes into a single checkbox, violating granular consent requirements.

  • Identify bundled consent patterns that violate GDPR granularity requirements
  • Redesign consent flows to separate distinct processing purposes into individual choices
  • Apply consent design principles that give users meaningful control over their data
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Opaque Privacy Policies and Hidden Data Practices

Audit a corporate privacy policy that uses legal jargon to obscure how personal data is actually collected, stored, and shared.

  • Identify vague and misleading language in privacy notices that obscures actual data practices
  • Evaluate whether a privacy policy meets GDPR transparency and plain language requirements
  • Rewrite opaque policy clauses into clear, specific disclosures that users can actually understand
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Personal Data Deletion Failures

Trace a user's deletion request across backups, analytics systems, and third-party integrations to ensure no personal data persists.

  • Map personal data locations across production databases, backups, analytics, and third-party systems
  • Identify residual data that persists after standard account deletion procedures
  • Apply comprehensive deletion workflows that satisfy right-to-erasure requirements across fragmented data landscapes
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Outdated and Inaccurate Personal Data

Investigate how outdated and incorrect personal data in a CRM causes real harm through wrong credit decisions and misdirected communications.

  • Identify inaccurate, outdated, and duplicate records in a customer database that affect real individuals
  • Trace how data quality failures lead to concrete harms including wrong credit decisions and misdirected communications
  • Apply data quality controls including validation rules, update workflows, and accuracy auditing processes
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Session Hijacking Through Missing Expiration

Discover that a shared workstation retains full access to a previous user's personal accounts and medical records due to missing session expiration.

  • Identify persistent sessions on shared devices that expose previous users' personal data
  • Trace how missing session expiration enables unauthorized access to accounts, medical records, and financial data
  • Apply session management controls including timeout policies, device binding, and activity-based expiration
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Blocked Data Subject Access Requests

Fulfill a data subject access request by locating personal data scattered across fragmented systems before the regulatory deadline expires.

  • Locate personal data across fragmented databases, email archives, and third-party processors to fulfill a DSAR
  • Identify gaps in data inventory that prevent complete and timely response to access requests
  • Apply structured DSAR fulfillment workflows that meet the GDPR 30-day response deadline
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Excessive Personal Data Collection

Audit a registration form and analytics implementation that collect far more personal data than the service actually needs.

  • Identify personal data fields in forms and analytics that exceed what is necessary for the stated purpose
  • Evaluate each data collection point against the GDPR data minimization principle
  • Apply data minimization redesign to reduce collection to only what is strictly required for service delivery
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does GDPR Article 7 require for marketing consent?

GDPR Article 7 requires that consent be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous. Organizations must use clear affirmative action like unticked checkboxes, keep records proving when and how consent was obtained, and make withdrawal as easy as opting in.

Pre-ticked boxes, bundled consent, and vague privacy policies do not meet the standard. Regulators have imposed over EUR 400M in fines related to consent violations.

What is the GDPR 72-hour breach notification rule?

Under GDPR Article 33, organizations must notify their supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of a personal data breach, unless the breach is unlikely to result in a risk to individuals.

The notification must include the nature of the breach, approximate number of affected individuals, likely consequences, and measures taken. British Airways was fined GBP 20M partly for delayed and inadequate breach response.

What is privacy by design under GDPR?

Privacy by design, codified in GDPR Article 25, requires organizations to integrate data protection into the design of systems and processes from the start, not bolt it on afterward. This includes data minimization, purpose limitation, and privacy-protective default settings.

The concept originated with Ann Cavoukian's seven foundational principles in the 1990s and became a legal obligation when the GDPR took effect in 2018.

What is a DSAR under GDPR?

A Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) is a right under GDPR Article 15 allowing any individual to request a copy of the personal data an organization holds about them.

Organizations must respond within 30 days, provide the data in an accessible format, and include information about processing purposes, retention periods, and third-party recipients. Requests can arrive through any channel, including email, web forms, or verbal communication.

What does GDPR Article 28 require for data processors?

Article 28 requires a written contract, called a Data Processing Agreement (DPA), between the controller and every processor handling personal data. The DPA must specify the processing purpose, data types, duration, and security measures.

Processors can only engage sub-processors with prior written authorization from the controller. The processor must assist with DSARs, breach notification, and data deletion, and submit to audits by the controller.

What is the OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks?

The OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks is an industry framework that identifies the ten most common ways organizations mishandle personal data.

It covers web application vulnerabilities that leak PII, operator-sided data leakage, insufficient breach response, bundled consent, non-transparent policies, failed data deletion, poor data quality, missing session expiration, blocked data subject access, and excessive data collection. The framework helps organizations assess and mitigate privacy risks beyond regulatory compliance.

How does the OWASP Privacy Risks list relate to GDPR?

The OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks overlaps significantly with GDPR requirements. For example, OWASP P3 (Insufficient Data Breach Response) maps to GDPR Article 33 breach notification, P4 (Consent on Everything) maps to Article 7 consent requirements, P6 (Insufficient Deletion) maps to Article 17 right to erasure, and P9 (Inability to Access Data) maps to Article 15 data subject access rights.

Training on both frameworks gives teams a complete picture of privacy obligations.

What does the EU AI Act require for workforce training?

Article 4 of the EU AI Act mandates that every employee who interacts with AI systems must have sufficient AI literacy. The requirement became enforceable on February 2, 2025, and applies regardless of role or department. Organizations must ensure staff understand how AI generates outputs, its limitations including hallucinations, and the data privacy implications of using AI tools.

Articles 14 and 26 add competency requirements for human oversight of high-risk AI systems, and Article 50 requires transparency disclosure for AI chatbots and AI-generated content. Failure to train staff on these requirements creates direct exposure to enforcement actions.

How do GDPR and the EU AI Act interact?

The two frameworks are independent but overlapping. When an AI system processes personal data, both apply simultaneously. GDPR Article 22 grants individuals the right not to be subject to automated decisions with legal effects, and that right attaches regardless of how the EU AI Act classifies the system.

For high-risk AI systems processing personal data, organizations may need both a GDPR Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) under Article 35 and a Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) under Article 27 of the EU AI Act. One does not replace the other.

What are the three penalty tiers under the EU AI Act?

Tier 1 covers Article 5 prohibited AI practices and reaches 35 million euros or 7% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. Tier 2 covers high-risk AI obligations and GPAI provider obligations and reaches 15 million euros or 3%. Tier 3 covers supplying incorrect, incomplete, or misleading information to authorities and reaches 7.5 million euros or 1.5%.

Beyond fines, national market surveillance authorities can suspend non-compliant systems, require market withdrawal, publicly disclose violations, and mandate corrective measures. Individual employees can face personal liability for knowingly enabling non-compliance or obstructing investigations.

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