Privacy, Data Protection and Data SecurityLaajuus (5 op)

Osaamistavoitteet

This foundational course on data protection law is aimed at introducing students to data protection law. After the course, students should be able to understand privacy and data protection law from a historical point of view and also recent legal issues as it pertains to digitalization. This course will include both a theoretical and practical approach to privacy and data protection law

Sisältö

This course covers topics such as:

- history and evolution of privacy and data protection law
- principles of data protection law
- data subject rights
- the roles and duties of the supervisory authorities and data protection officers
- data protection and technologies
- data protection and some other relevant fields of law.

NOTE! This course is similar in content to the course taught in Finnish ONVAL0010 Tietosuoja ja tietoturvallisuus. Before registering, you should note
that it is not possible to take two courses of the same content, but in different languages, for the degree

Oppimateriaalit

Lecture material. Additional potential source material for essays will be discussed at the lectures. Recommended reading: - Carey, Peter (ed.), Data Protection: A practical guide to UK and EU law, 5th Edition, Oxford University Press 2018 - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and the Council of Europe, Handbook on European Data Protection Law, Publications Office of the European Union 2018, available in various languages at https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/handbook-european-data-protection-law-2018-edition - Kuner, Christopher; Bygrave, Lee A.; Docksey, Christopher; Drechsler, Laura (eds.): The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) : A Commentary, Oxford University Press 2020

Lisätiedot

Teachers
Emmanuel Salami (LL.M, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Lapland, emmanuel.salami@ulapland.fi)

Juhana Riekkinen (LL.D. trained on the bench, University Lecturer in Legal Informatics)

Other
This course is part of the Law and Tech package.