Data protection is no longer only a legal requirement; it is a core part of trust, governance, ethics, technology, and organisational accountability. The Data Protection & GDPR Compliance course helps learners understand the foundations, principles, rights, risks, enforcement issues, ethical debates, and future challenges that shape modern privacy practice. This online course explores the history of privacy and surveillance, human rights principles, UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, Brexit divergence, lawful processing, controller and processor responsibilities, Data Protection Officer governance, individual rights, consent, legitimate interests, special category data, children’s privacy, profiling, automated decisions, DPIAs, breach notification, anonymisation, pseudonymisation, ICO enforcement, sectoral challenges, surveillance ethics, international transfers, Schrems II, SCCs, BCRs, AI accountability, fairness audits, and global privacy regimes. It is designed for learners who want a broad, critical, and practical understanding of data protection and GDPR compliance.