Earners of this badge have completed City & Guilds data protection elearning. They have a good, base-level of understanding about the General Data Protection Regulation and its seven key principles. Earners are familiar with the terms ‘personal data’, ‘legitimate interest’ and ‘special category data’ and understand that a new privacy-focused process is required when starting any new processing activity, such as creating a new product or service that deals with people’s data.