- Knowledge and understanding
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
• know all the principles and concepts applying to data control and processing;
• follow-up the non-stop innovation in data processing and comprehend the
significant challenges for data protection regulation;
• master the tools and the institutions compatible with the new legal framework
regulating data protection.
- Applying knowledge and understanding
Upon completing the study program, students will be
able to:
• assess the impact of data processing towards the right and liberties of data
subjects;
• elaborate and plan different privacy-by-design and privacy-by default
solutions depending on specific processing purposes and situations;
• effectively communicate and work, as an expert in data protection issues.
- Making judgments;
Upon completing the study program, students will be able to:
• apply the rules required by specifical data processing schemes;
• recognize data protection risks within a processing and identify proper and
effective measures to minimize them;
• prepare original reports and impact assessment of specifical data processing
simulations.
Lectures, classroom discussions, practical training on new regulation and cases law; any course tests aimed at verifying the results and level of learning.
Nobody.
Not mandatory.
I. Privacy and Personal Data Protection fundamentals (2 cfu)
II. The GDPR discipline (3 cfu)
III. Technological and economical new challenges for Data Protection (1 cfu).
C. Giakoumopoulos - G. Buttarelli – M. O’Flaherty, Handbook on European data protection law, 2018 edition, EU publications; (and)
- Handouts and outlook provided by the teacher.
Argomenti | Riferimenti testi | |
---|---|---|
1 | International legal framework | |
2 | The right to personal data protection,terminology and users of personal data | |
3 | Interaction with other rights and legitimate interests | |
4 | Principles of European data protection Law | |
5 | Principles of European data protection Law | |
6 | Rules of European data protection Law | |
7 | Data subject's rights | |
8 | Data subject's rights and their enforcement | |
9 | Independent Supervisory Authorities | |
10 | Specific types of data and their protection rules | |
11 | Specific types of data and their protection rules | |
12 | Big data: specific rules and rights | |
13 | International data transfers and protection data in international transfers | |
14 | Data protection in the context of police and criminal justice | |
15 | Data protection in the context of police and criminal justice:other legal instruments | |
16 | Data protection in EU-level joint information systems | |
17 | DLT and GDPR | |
18 | Blochchain and GDPR | |
19 | Smart contracts | |
20 | Rules on smart contracts | |
21 | Exercise: case studies |
The assessment of students learning will be centered on a final oral exam to verify the level of the acquired knowledge about data protection main topics and the familiarity with the legal framework. For attending students, it is possible to take an oral exam on a project that delves into a specific case study and the legal issues involved.