Big Data, Human Rights and Human Security - Period 4

Computer Science Program
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dates: 2/4/22 - 7/1/22

Computer Science

Big Data, Human Rights and Human Security - Period 4

Big Data, Human Rights and Human Security - Period 4 Course Overview

OVERVIEW

CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Primary Subject Area: Law
Instruction in: English
Course Code: R_BDHR
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level Graduate
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 84

DESCRIPTION

This course teaches European privacy and data protection law. The legal right to privacy, and especially the right to data protection, are relatively recent inventions. These rights protect citizens against public and private power to monitor and track people and make decisions about them. Data protection law also stimulates the use of personal data, in addition to protecting citizens against data processing by governments and big tech.

In this course, we discuss the main European legal frameworks for privacy and data protection. The course gives an overview of the structure of the most important laws in this field and invites students to take a position in current discussions, such as whether it is possible to freely give consent for the processing of your personal data online and whether large-scale scanning of online communications is justified to detect child sexual abuse material.

Prior course title was: Big Data, Human Rights and Human Security - Period 4

Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.


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