You will explore emerging privacy and data protection issues in the UK, EU and internationally. You will critically examine how personal and sensitive intimate data, financial, health, and transactional data are managed, protected by law and policy, and who has access to this information. You will assess emerging legal, regulatory, data protection and personal privacy and data and cyber protection issues and critically examine their implications for data protection and regulatory law, surveillance, and information systems. You will undertake a sustained analysis of privacy and data protection law and regulation in the UK, EU and internationally. You will critically examine whether privacy protection, consent, and confidentiality measures are proportionate to the legal requirements to protect personal information while balancing the requirements of commerce, the state and public administrations to collect, use and share personal information.
Lecture 4
Workshop/Seminar 20
Written -Short written piece -Briefing note -1000 words (with optional visual element) -Weighting (30%)
Written- Extended Writing -Essay -2500 words -70%
Reassessment methods: Like-for-like
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
-Comprehensively explain concepts, principles and rules of data protection, privacy, consent, data surveillance, and internet governance, including regulatory developments in the UK, EU and Internationally.
-Critically analyse and evaluate contemporary and emerging issues in data protection, regulation and legal developments in the UK, EU or internationally.
-Apply an advanced critical analysis of legal and regulatory actions taken in response to the failure to protect personal data, ensure confidentiality and address online harms and surveillance threats.
-Critically evaluate the permeability of public/private boundaries in the workplace, public and commercial spaces, online and in the developing area of cyber security and surveillance.
-Effectively and expertly communicate privacy and data protection concepts and legal arguments and analysis to a variety of specialist and non-specialist audiences.
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