Navigate the complex world of global data privacy and protection laws, understanding critical concepts, compliance obligations, and risk mitigation strategies for a secure digital future.
In an increasingly digital and interconnected world, protecting personal data has become a cornerstone of corporate governance, ethical responsibility, and regulatory compliance. Data privacy laws establish frameworks that dictate how organizations collect, process, store, transfer, and safeguard individuals’ personal information. This course explores the evolution, principles, and global landscape of data protection and privacy legislation, emphasizing both compliance obligations and ethical imperatives.
Participants will gain a foundational understanding of leading global frameworks such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), and other emerging U.S. and international privacy laws. Through comparative analysis, the session highlights key regulatory principles including lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity, and accountability.
Learners will assess how legal bases for processing—such as consent, contractual necessity, legal obligation, or legitimate interest—affect operational practices. The course also explains data subject rights, cross-border data transfer restrictions, and organizational accountability measures such as record-keeping, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), and the role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO).
Lynn Fountain has over 45 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 24 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Ms. Fountain has held two Chief Audit Executive positions for international companies. In 2011, as the Chief Audit Executive for an international construction/ engineering firm, she was involved in the active investigation of a joint venture fraud. The investigation included work with the FBI and ultimately led to indictment of the perpetrators and recovery of $13M. Ms. Fountain is currently engaged in her own training and consulting business and is a regular trainer for the AICPA. Ms. Fountain is the author of three separate technical books. “Raise the Red Flag – The Internal Auditors Guide to Fraud Evaluations” was published by the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation. -“Leading The Internal Audit Function” and -“Ethics and The Internal Auditor Political Dilemma” were published by Taylor & Francis In addition Ms. Fountain was a contributing author to the certification program exam for the National Association of Accountants. She also has certificate programs on various on-line platforms. Ms. Fountain has performed as an adjunct instructor for the School of Business for Grantham University and developed the first internal audit curriculum for the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CGMA, CRMA credentials and CPA certificate (non-active).
