University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Data Privacy and AI Law: GDPR, HIPAA, and the EU AI Act

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Data Privacy and AI Law: GDPR, HIPAA, and the EU AI Act

Ken Suh

Instructor: Ken Suh

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Compare how the GDPR, HIPAA, and California’s breach law define protected data, individual rights, and breach notification duties.

  • Apply GDPR concepts such as controller, processor, consent, and processing to identify obligations in a privacy policy.

  • Explain core machine learning concepts and evaluate how the EU AI Act classifies AI systems by risk and what it requires of providers.

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November 2026

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Taught in English

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This course is part of the Data Privacy and AI Law: Compliance for Non-Lawyers Specialization
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You will learn how to analyze a privacy law by asking who and what it covers and what protections it provides, and apply that approach to the GDPR, including its processing principles, the lawful bases for processing, key definitions such as personal data, consent, and processing, and the rights of data subjects, including the right to object and protection against automated decision-making. You will also learn the difference between controllers and processors, the record-keeping and security duties of controllers, and how to identify which jurisdictions’ laws apply to a business. You will then learn where privacy law meets cybersecurity through data breach notification, comparing the GDPR’s 72-hour notice rule, HIPAA’s covered entities and protected health information, and California’s breach notification law.

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10 videos1 reading9 assignments

You will learn how privacy regulations are put into practice in a website privacy policy, including its main sections and the questions to ask product, marketing, business, and legal teams when drafting one. You will also learn core artificial intelligence concepts, including machine learning, features, labeled and unlabeled data, neural networks, deep learning, and supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, and why lawyers and technical specialists need shared definitions. You will then be introduced to the EU AI Act, including its risk categories, the roles of providers, deployers, importers, and distributors, prohibited practices, high-risk systems, and the quality management and technical documentation duties of providers.

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Ken Suh
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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