Privacy and Data Protection Law
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| LAWW3138 | Law | 3 | 20 | Autumn UK |
- Code
- LAWW3138
- School
- Law
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn UK
Summary
Rights to both privacy and data protection have developed to apply to an increasingly broad range of information or data, information uses or forms of data processing, and actors, especially by expanding to widely cover interferences by private parties. Although their importance in regulating media and information technologies cannot be doubted, each is challenged by emerging technologies and practices, especially online.
This course examines the core principles of privacy and data protection law, their enforcement, and their capacity for extraterritorial application and impact. It considers their development as parallel attempts to extend privacy and data protection controls to private parties, influenced respectively by Article 8 EHCR jurisprudence and European data protection law. It contrasts privacy theory with data protection theory to explore the extent to which they protect the same interests, values, or rights. It critically compares and evaluates the scope of the key concepts involved, obligations imposed, remedies and enforcement mechanisms available, and their extraterritorial application and impacts. The course explores both the potential for, and limitations of, privacy and data protection laws to address the misuse of private information or personal data in the context of emerging media and information technologies, especially online, and invites students to form an engaged critical perspective on the future of these laws.
Target Students
Available to UG Year 2 and final year students on the LLB or BA programmes in Law. Also available to exchange students hosted by the School of Law.
Classes
This module is taught in seminar format.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework: 12 pages
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
Upon completion of the module students will demonstrate a clear understanding of the principles and enforcement of privacy and data protection law, including their extra-territorial impact. They will have critically compared and analysed the differences between privacy and data protection laws and reflected upon the extent to which and how these laws protect different interests, values, or rights. They will have developed a keen understanding both of the potential for, and limitations of, these laws to address the misuse of private information or personal data. Successful candidates will have reflected the ability of these laws to regulate emerging information technologies and developed an engaged critical perspective on the necessity of reform or development in this area.Learning Outcomes
To develop in-depth understanding the core principles of privacy and data protection law, its enforcement, and its extra-territorial impact.
To critically compare and analyse privacy and data protection laws and to evaluate the extent to which and how these laws protect different interests, values, or rights.
To develop an engaged critical perspective on the capacity for privacy and data protection laws to regulate emerging technologies and the necessity of reform or development in this area.
To develop analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
To develop legal research and writing skills.