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Analytics engineering, data quality and governance · Proficient · Lesson 71 of 99 · 5 min video, then about 2 hours of practice
Data governance, access and privacy
After this you can explain the core of data governance, apply privacy principles such as data minimisation and purpose limitation to your work, and decide who should see what.
Why it matters
Analysts handle customer data daily and are often the people who copy it into a spreadsheet and email it. Learn the governance basics (ownership, stewardship, classification, access control) and the privacy principles from GDPR, which shape law well beyond Europe: lawful basis, purpose limitation, data minimisation, retention limits. The trap is treating privacy as legal's problem; analysts make most of the day-to-day decisions that matter.
How to use this resource
A five-minute explanation of data governance from IBM.