Overview

The growth of the mobile internet and converged services is creating new challenges related to the use and protection of people’s personal information. The legal landscape is also evolving to address the challenges related to privacy and security posed by emerging technologies and enhanced data processing capabilities.

This course investigates the current state of mobile privacy and security, highlights research into consumer attitudes towards their privacy and examines current and emerging regulations around the world.

The course also reviews the GSMA’s universal Mobile Privacy Principles, Privacy Design Guidelines for App Developers and industry initiatives that give consumers more control over how their information is used and processed.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the key aspects of mobile privacy, data protection, security concepts and consumer trust.
  • Consider the role of mobile operators, internet content providers and consumers in respecting and protecting the privacy of consumers.
  • Discover how regulation can be applied effectively to protect consumer privacy and security in a converged world.
  • Explore practical solutions and initiatives that enable the operationalisation of privacy and security within mobile operator environments.
  • Establish a good foundation in privacy and data protection as well as security principles as they apply within the mobile industry.

Course Enrolment Criteria

This course is open to:

  • Regulators
  • Policymakers
  • Representatives from academia and international organisations working on regulatory or policy issues

We cannot accept applications from individuals working in the private sector or those not involved in policy or regulation.

Course Completion Certificates

All of our courses are certified by the United Kingdom Telecoms Academy (UKTA) and can be used as evidence of professional development.

To qualify for a course completion certificate, you must attend all the course sessions and fill out the course survey.

If you have any special needs regarding this training course, please us let us know via our contact form so we can get in touch to discuss how your needs can be met.

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Duration: 18 hours
Start date: 25 September 2024
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Trainer

Noriswadi Ismail
Senior Director - Data Privacy, Policy & Regulation, GSMA

As Senior Director, Data Privacy at the GSMA, Noriswadi Ismail (Noris) serves as global lead, expert and thought leader on data protection and privacy issues and as primary point of contact for all GSMA advocacy related questions and developments. He’s also representing GSMA externally with government, regulators, and other key stakeholders to advance GSMA policy positions and influence policymakers and regulators globally in all privacy and data protection issues (including but not limited to the intersection between AI, cybersecurity, blockchain, IoT, edge and quantum computing).

Prior to the GSMA, Noris spent 9 years as a regional compliance, technology policy, and regulatory affairs counsel for a leading systems integrator in Malaysia (as IIUM alumnus), and over 15 years in global consulting firms as GDPR, EMEA & APAC and Global Data Privacy practice leader, practitioner, fractional Data Protection Officer, and AI Responsibility Leader in London. He is former Asia and European International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Advisory Board member and currently serving as Diversity in Privacy Section IAPP Advisory Board member on a pro bono basis. Noris holds Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection (PC.dp), CIPP/A, LLM in Information Technology and Telecommunications Laws, University of Strathclyde (as Chevening alumnus), Privacy and Freedom of Information fellowship, Fordham and George Washington Law Schools (as Fulbright Professional Exchange alumnus) and Oxford Scenarios Planning, University of Oxford.


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Moderator

Daniela Gutierrez-Torres
Training Manager, GSMA

Daniela works on the GSMA’s Capacity Building program and manages the delivery of training content to regulators and policymakers worldwide and leads capacity building partnerships with the World Bank, ITU, among others. Before joining GSMA, Daniela worked at the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. She designed and delivered training to African graduate students to develop leadership and critical skills and coordinated the Programme for African Leadership’s wide range of operational and developmental activities.

Daniela holds an MSc in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex. Her interests and expertise lie at the intersection between social innovation, economic and social rights, and social development.

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