GDPR requirements in Cybersecurity - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Understanding GDPR Requirements

📖 Scenario: You work in a company that handles customer data. Your manager asks you to create a simple checklist of key GDPR requirements to ensure the company respects privacy laws.

🎯 Goal: Build a clear checklist of the main GDPR requirements using a dictionary structure. This checklist will help your team remember important rules to follow when handling personal data.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary with exact GDPR requirement names as keys and their short descriptions as values

Add a variable to count how many GDPR requirements are listed

Use a loop to create a new dictionary with only requirements that mention 'consent'

Add a final statement confirming the checklist is ready

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Companies must understand and follow GDPR rules to protect customer privacy and avoid legal penalties.

💼 Career

Knowledge of GDPR is essential for roles in data protection, compliance, cybersecurity, and IT management.

1

Create GDPR requirements dictionary

Create a dictionary called gdpr_requirements with these exact entries: 'Lawfulness, fairness and transparency' with value 'Process data legally and fairly', 'Purpose limitation' with value 'Collect data for specified purposes only', 'Data minimization' with value 'Only collect necessary data', 'Consent' with value 'Obtain clear consent from individuals', and 'Data subject rights' with value 'Allow individuals to access and control their data'.

Cybersecurity

# Create the gdpr_requirements dictionary with exact keys and values
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces {} to create the dictionary and separate each key-value pair with a comma.

2

Add count of GDPR requirements

Create a variable called requirement_count and set it to the number of items in the gdpr_requirements dictionary.

Cybersecurity

gdpr_requirements = {
    'Lawfulness, fairness and transparency': 'Process data legally and fairly',
    'Purpose limitation': 'Collect data for specified purposes only',
    'Data minimization': 'Only collect necessary data',
    'Consent': 'Obtain clear consent from individuals',
    'Data subject rights': 'Allow individuals to access and control their data'
}
# Create requirement_count to hold the number of GDPR requirements
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the len() function to count items in the dictionary.

3

Filter requirements mentioning consent

Create a new dictionary called consent_requirements that includes only the entries from gdpr_requirements where the description contains the word 'consent'. Use a for loop with variables key and value to iterate over gdpr_requirements.items().

Cybersecurity

for key, value in gdpr_requirements.items():
    if 'consent' in value:
        consent_requirements[key] = value
# Create checklist_status with the confirmation message

Need a hint?

Check if the word 'consent' is in the description string using the in keyword inside the loop.

4

Add final confirmation statement

Create a variable called checklist_status and set it to the string 'GDPR checklist is ready' to confirm the checklist is complete.

Cybersecurity

checklist_status = 'GDPR checklist is ready'

Need a hint?

Assign the exact string to the variable as shown.