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AEES Executive Certificate in Privacy, data and accountability

Decide what you collect, who sees it, and how you answer a person. This AEES certification attests privacy, data and accountability.

  • AssessmentProfessional assessment
  • Attempts2
  • PreparationIncluded
  • France
  • Canada
Description

Privacy, data and accountability

A vague familiarity with “Privacy, data and accountability” is no longer enough. This belongs with Cybersecurity and sovereignty. You hold cyber risk, the information system, privacy and continuity. People are hired to decide, not just to name the topic. This AEES certification is for professionals, managers and leaders who want to decide a collection, answer a person and own a leak. No diploma is required. What is required is a working command of written French, and the will to show the subject on a real file, in a company, a public body or a partner organisation.

You are not joining a long degree. You take “Privacy, data and accountability” seriously enough to use it, and seriously enough for someone else to read it on a file. Everything happens online, around a job you already have. You prepare if you need to, then you sit a professional assessment. The AEES Executive Certificate, if it is issued, is proof in your name, and it can be checked. It holds in a CV, a move or a cooperation. It is a short specialisation, issued by a higher-education institution. You see at once what you are buying: a targeted title, not a course catalogue.

Afterwards you can carry “Privacy, data and accountability” into a team, a file or a new responsibility, and explain your choices to a manager, a funder or a partner institution. Others will see that you can decide a collection, answer a person and own a leak, including outside your own organisation. If you succeed, AEES issues an AEES Executive Certificate in your name, with a unique serial number that can be checked in the public register. The award stays in your workspace. It shows a professional judgement you have demonstrated, useful for a CV, a new post or work in common.

Skills

What this certificate attests

The capabilities the assessment attests if you pass.

  • Decide a collection
  • Answer a person
  • Own a leak
  • Decide whether a third party really needs the file
  • Set an end, not an eternal archive
  • Alert, contain, explain — in that order
ESCO classification — European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

ESCO, the European skills vocabulary

This is the European Commission’s classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations. This certificate is linked to it through the skills below. Each link opens the official record.

Preparation included

To prepare for the assessment

After purchase, a preparatory course is available: 6 written modules, without an instructor, at your own pace. You are not required to follow it before opening the assessment. Each module sets out the notions, a commented case, the points to keep and a FAQ. It covers Collection, Transparency, Rights and Sharing.

When you are ready, you enter the assessment: a file already open, incomplete facts, conflicting views. You move through successive decisions. This is not a full taught programme with pedagogical supervision.

Structured written course

Notions, objectives and concrete examples, organised progressively.

Applied case

A commented professional situation to anchor the theory.

FAQ and preparation

Frequent doubts, then questions to go further on your own.

  1. Module 1, Collection: Take only what the decision needs Collection is the first real contact point between a person and your data system. What you take here determines your risk, your obligations, and your credibility. Good collection practice starts from the decision you want to make and works backward to the minimum data that truly enables it. Everything else is cost and exposure without value. In busy organizations, collection choices are often embedded in forms, SDK defaults, and procurement templates. They become invisible over time. This module brings those choices back into view. You will learn a method to translate a business purpose into a concrete, defensible set of fields, with clear labels, sources, and controls. You will practice saying no to nice to have data, and yes to only what the decision needs.
  2. AEES Executive Certificate, Module 2: Transparency Transparency is the first thing people notice and the last thing regulators will forgive you for getting wrong. It is not a banner or a single web page. It is the ongoing practice of telling people what you collect, why you collect it, what happens next, and what choices and rights they have. If a person can understand what you do without specialist knowledge, you are on the right path. Most legal frameworks expect this. The European Union requires concise, intelligible information for individuals, using clear and plain language. California expects a notice at collection, visible where the data is gathered. Public agencies, consumer authorities, and standards bodies all converge on the same professional principle: explain what you do in a way a normal person can act on.
  3. Module 3, Rights: Responding to Access and Erasure Requests with Precision Every organization that collects personal data will face a rights request. The most frequent are access requests, where a person asks, What data do you have about me, and what are you doing with it, and erasure requests, where a person asks you to delete their data. These are not abstract compliance topics. They affect support queues, engineering backlogs, vendor management, and incident risk. If you improvise, you lose time, leave gaps in evidence, and may answer inconsistently. If you follow a method, your answers are timely, accurate, and proportionate. Legal frameworks vary, but the operational core is stable. You verify identity. You identify the systems that hold the person’s data. You collect and review responsive records, balancing other people’s rights and internal restrictions. You decide what to disclose or delete, and what to refuse with reasons. You answer in a clear format and keep a record of what you did and why. Well-run requests build trust and reduce complaints. Poorly run requests create disputes and rework, and can escalate to regulators.
  4. Sharing: Decide whether a third party really needs the file Sharing a file often feels routine. A partner asks for customer lists. A vendor needs logs. A regulator requests documents. Each situation looks similar but carries different legal roles, risks, and operational consequences. Accountability means you can justify the share, limit it to what is necessary, and prove that you controlled the operation from request to deletion. This module turns the high-level rules into a practical approach. You will learn to frame the purpose, test necessity field by field, confirm the legal role of each party, choose the right governance instrument, and implement controls that survive audits and incidents. The outcome is a repeatable decision that stands up to questions from your management, your DPO or privacy lead, and regulators.
  5. Module 5 of 6, Retention: Set an end, not an eternal archive Retention is where privacy decisions turn into day-to-day discipline. It answers a simple question with complex implications: how long do we keep this, and what exactly happens at the end. The choice affects risk, cost, trust, and compliance. Keeping data forever is the easy habit. Ending it on time is the accountable practice. This module gives you a method to set an end. You will map purposes to periods, define the event that starts the clock, choose a deletion or anonymization method, and configure controls across systems, backups, and vendors. You will also prepare for exceptions such as litigation holds and regulatory archiving obligations.
  6. Module 6 of 6: Leak Leaks happen. A misaddressed email, a lost laptop, a server exposed to the internet, a vendor account taken over. What distinguishes mature practices is not a promise of zero incidents, but the ability to react in a steady, structured way. This module gives you that structure and the words to carry it out under pressure. You will learn how to set the first minutes and hours on the right track. Your priorities are simple to say and hard to execute: alert, contain, explain. The rest of the work flows from those three actions. We will translate them into specific steps, decision criteria, and a checklist you can use in a real file tomorrow morning.