CIPP US Privacy Course for Lawyers and Law Students (+ more)

This course is to help you prepare for the CIPP/US privacy certification exam and be a privacy professional and understand the materials.

This course was originally geared for lawyers and law students, assuming good legal knowledge and study skills, walking quickly through the CIPP/US body of knowledge.

Now this course is for more people, as I update the course, we expand some of the coverage of introductory law, and the modules are longer.

Many non-lawyers and non-law students have taken the course and found it helpful and excellent value. If you need extra help with basic law or basic study skills, please see my references, resources, or contact me. As I update the course, I am building more intro to law materials into it.

CIPP/US is the Certified Information Privacy Professional (United States) certification administered by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). It covers a wide area of knowledge, with a heavy focus on privacy and cybersecurity law.

The CIPP/US body of knowledge is good to know, and IAPP (a non-profit) is an organization that provides solid information about privacy.

If you are a law student or a lawyer looking to advance your career and opportunities in data privacy and related areas, CIPP/US is a way to start and give you a boost. Learn and demonstrate your knowledge of privacy law and information governance.

For non-lawyers, learning about privacy and law is also important.

** Construction notice ** Starting August 23, 2026 I am updating the entire course, it will take me several weeks to complete if all goes well (and longer if it doesn't). The older lectures remain solid (priority basics of CIPP/US remain consistent), my handouts and website have updated resources. There will be minor disruption during this update process, as I record each module new, and replace the old, I appreciate your patience. ** As of 9/27/2026 I have fully updated the first 14 videos (through 2.8 in Section 2).**

I originally tried to keep this course as short and brief as possible (7+ hours) while still covering the body of knowledge and preparing you with high priority information. As I update it, the length will be considerably longer with expanded coverage. Still, this is a start, the rest is up to you.

This course is not for everyone but is right for some. It is lecture format, PowerPoint slides with main points in bullets, and I lecture as we go through the slides. I don't show my face much (since that makes recording easier and many learners don't have a preference anyway). I am not a professional entertainer nor comedian, and arguably this proves it. Neither am I an AI tool or AI generated slop. So take the course for the knowledge and information -- not for the entertainment.  Take your personal preferences into consideration and see a few sample videos before you decide if this is right for you. If you have a problem or need something, message me.

Videos run up to 20 minutes, even 30 minutes. That's longer than what is recommended for average Udemy learners, and is a problem for some but not all. You decide what is right for you.

Previously, I prepared a full length CIPP/US prep course geared for information security professionals at a subscription based infosec online learning platform. That course is still live, and this Udemy course does not compete with that, but provides CIPP/US knowledge in an abbreviated format for a different audience and to help my students.  

Building these courses is a hobby for me, I do not have significant video recording skills, nor hardly any video editing skills (it's getting a little better), and there is no production team, and I don't use AI tools, no AI generated graphics. It's my slides and my lectures. This original course had almost no editing, so you will hear my pauses and misspeaks, warts and all. The 2026 updates now have minor editing -- I remove some of those longer pauses and misspeaks. Rest assured my mistakes still happen, I just can edit them now so you don't hear them all.

Course topic note about Udemy topic categories: This course primarily teaches "privacy", "U.S. privacy", "privacy law" "CIPP/US", "IAPP CIPP/US", "privacy and cybersecurity law", and with a US focus.

When this course was first built, Udemy did not have a "privacy" category or a "CIPP/US" category nor a "privacy law" category. So the initial Udemy category wis simply "law".  Just remember that "privacy" is an important professional career now, and is not just for lawyers and is not just about law (though law is important for privacy and is also everywhere around us).

Description updated 9/27/2026