LAW41270

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of the module students should be able to:

• Analyse theoretical approaches to defining the interest in personal data.
• Compare and contrast approaches to data protection and privacy law in Europe and Ireland.
• Discuss the impact of technological change on data protection and privacy law.
• Understand both legal and non-legal responses to data protection and privacy challenges.
• Identify the overlaps and differences between data protection and privacy rules.
• Apply fundamental principles of data protection and privacy law to factual situations.

The United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and UCD contributes in general to SDG 4 Quality Education. Further SDGs explored within this module if relevant are listed below. A scale of 1 - 5 indicates the extent to which the SDG is covered.


 

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Teaching for this module will include lectures and seminar discussions based on prior reading.

Students on this module are expected to have read and understood the UCD Academic Integrity Policy and the School Protocol on Academic Integrity. Students must ensure that they comply with all requirements laid down therein and avoid academic misconduct. Students are not permitted to use generative artificial intelligence, or other machine learning technology, in their learning and in completing assessments on this module. Students are expected to follow Oscola Ireland in citing sources in completing assessments

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

As part of UCD's student support, under the Additional Consideration policy, extensions may be available for the following assessments in the module: Assignment (including essay/poster), Portfolio, Reflective Assignment, Report(s), and Individual Project.

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Group feedback will be available on both the assignment and take home exam.

For an excellent overview of privacy and data protection in a European context see:

• Handbook on European Data Protection Law (Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2018), https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/handbook-european-data-protection-law.

For a general introduction to privacy see generally:

• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “The Right to Privacy in a Digital Age,” June 30, 2014, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session27/Documents/A.HRC.27.37_en.pdf.
• Daniel J. Solove, “‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy” 44 (2007): 745, http://ssrn.com/abstract=998565
• Daniel Solove, “A Taxonomy of Privacy,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 154, no. 3 (2006): 477–560, https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/lawreview/articles/volume154/issue3/Solove154U.Pa.L.Rev.477%282006%29.pdf
• Neil M. Richards, “Four Privacy Myths,” in A World Without Privacy, ed. Austin Sarat (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2427808.

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