Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and Surveillance (Internet Law B)
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| LAWW3135 | Law | 3 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- LAWW3135
- School
- Law
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
The module delivers a broad perspective over the legal issues which surround the development and use of information and communications technologies in relation to cybercrime, cybersecurity and online surveillance.
In particular, it studies Internet crime in its various forms (piracy, hacking, viruses, denial of service attacks, offensive and harmful content, device misuse, phishing etc), against a range of domestic and international legislations.
The module discusses critically existing responses to online activities in law and enforcement, while exploring themes and topics such as: information and network security; online conduct in the information era; conceptions of computer crime; online jurisdiction; content liability; access to personal data; Web 2.0 and cloud computing. Furthermore, it explores policies and practices of electronic surveillance and their impacts on digital rights and citizenship.
Target Students
Only available to Final Year students on the LLB or BA Law programmes. Also available to Law exchange students.
Classes
This module is taught through a combination of lectures and seminars.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework: 12 pages
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
This module aims to provide students with a broad and contextual introduction to cybercrime, cybersecurity and online surveillance and the relevant principles and concepts of law relating to information and network technologies. Its objectives include facilitating a deeper understanding of domestic and international legal responses to cyber-dependent and cyber-enabled crimes; engaging with interdisciplinary examinations into the development and conduct of cybercrime; exploring approaches to cybersecurity and digital forensics; analysing and critically evaluating electronic surveillance, policies behind it and the dangers this reserves for democracy and digital lives.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding:
* Students will develop systematic understanding of legal rules and enforcement responding to online deviant behaviours, as well as their interrelationship with the fields of study of computer and information security.
* They will demonstrate current understanding of surveillance and its methods in depth.
Cognitive/Intellectual skills:
* Students will argue from competing perspectives the role and function of law with regard to the development of cyberspace and to current legal problems in the field of information technology and cybercrime
* They will analyse and critically evaluate the reliability, validity and significance of applied policies and regulatory regimes to draw conclusions on computer crime, to assess the reach of computer and information security inputs and to analyse debates over the use of online surveillance in contemporary legal settings.
Professional skills:
* Students will develop practical skills of judging the significance, reliability and validity and of evidence to support conclusions and/or recommendations when addressing issues of cybercrime, as might be encountered in real life.
* They will develop awareness of personal and commercial responsibility in online contexts and incorporate this in their practice.
Transferable skills:
- Students will develop written communication and research skills, being able to identify and retrieve legal and other supporting material to construct a reasoned critical argument in writing, supported by appropriate sources and authorities.