ACE-AF-13BeginnerTier 1 · Core
Data, Privacy & AI: What Every Professional Needs to Know
Understand the everyday privacy and data-handling choices professionals need to make when using AI.
What you’ll explore
- Explain what happens to information entered into a consumer AI tool, and distinguish consumer, enterprise and private AI deployments and their data implications
- Identify the four data types that require careful handling: personal, confidential, regulated and sensitive
- Describe the key privacy principles relevant to AI use in Australia (Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles) and, in overview, the GDPR
- Apply the five-question Safe Data Test to any AI task before proceeding, and find out which tools your organisation approves
- Write a specific Personal Data Handling Commitment and respond appropriately to a suspected data incident involving AI use
Course outline
01What Happens to Your Data When You Use AI: Consumer, Enterprise and Private Tools60 min
02The Four Data Types That Need Careful Handling: Personal, Confidential, Regulated and Sensitive60 min
03Privacy Law and AI: The Australian Privacy Principles, GDPR in Brief and What Your Organisation's Policy Should Say60 min
04The Safe Data Test: Five Questions Before Every AI Task60 min
05Your Personal Data Handling Commitment, Responding to a Data Incident and Preparing Your Assessment60 min
Who it’s for
Any professional who uses, or is about to use, AI tools with workplace information HR, legal, finance, healthcare and client-services staff who handle other people's information every day Managers and team leaders who need to set safe habits for their team Small business owners and sole traders who are their own privacy officer Anyone who has completed earlier AI Fundamentals courses and wants to use AI safely with real data