Work through the Harvard Online course on your own schedule within weekly deadlines, alongside professionals from around the world, with three months of Voca practice to apply what you learn.
Complete the course and Harvard Online issues your Certificate of Completion.
Curriculum developed and delivered by faculty from Harvard SEAS and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Issued in your legal name as a Certified Electronic Credential you can add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Stack this course with others to earn a Certificate of Specialization from Harvard Online.
Five topics examining privacy as an ethical, business, technological and societal concern — framed for decision-makers rather than lawyers.
Syllabus topics are set by Harvard Online and may be revised between cohorts.
If your organization collects personal data and someone must answer for how it is used, this course is designed for you.
No legal or technical background required. Taught in English; participants should be 18 or over.
Privacy questions now reach every function, from marketing to HR. This course prepares the decision-makers who have to answer them, not only the lawyers.
Your coursework is designed and delivered by Harvard faculty, with industry experts bringing real cases into each topic.
Professor Waldo teaches distributed systems and privacy, serves as Chief Technology Officer for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and is a Professor of Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Three Harvard Online modules on data, business decisions and privacy — with live sessions, app access and Voca practice.
One fee covering the full Harvard Online course, your Certificate of Completion, and three months of Voca practice access.
Four steps, usually completed within a week.
A twenty-minute conversation with an advisor to check the course fits your role and goals. No obligation.
We confirm the upcoming start dates that suit your schedule.
Confirm your place, then complete payment by international card or bank transfer.
We enroll you directly with Harvard Online. Your access details arrive by email before your start date.
No. The course frames privacy for decision-makers rather than lawyers, looking at it as an ethical, business, technological and societal concern.
Five topics: what privacy is; data collection, use and reuse; the technology battleground; the price of privacy; and what is coming next.
Risk, compliance and legal professionals, technology and product leaders, functional and department heads, and founders and business owners.
The course runs five weeks at roughly four to five hours a week, completed on your own schedule within weekly deadlines.
USD 950 for the complete course, covering the full Harvard Online course, your Certificate of Completion and three months of Voca practice access.
Voca is SkillsPro360's AI-powered practice tool. You can rehearse a presentation, run a mock interview, or have your CV reviewed — privately, on demand, as many times as you like. Three months of access are included with this course, and your advisor will help you time it for when it is most useful.
Yes. It is one of the three modules of the Executive Program in Data & AI for Business. If you go on to complete the other two, this course counts toward your Certificate of Specialization. Speak to an advisor before enrolling so we can map the route with you.
Harvard Online. On successful completion you receive a Certificate of Completion issued directly by Harvard Online. SkillsPro360 is an authorized delivery partner — we are not Harvard University.
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