Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 200955

Coordinator Thillagavathy Rajaretnam Opens in new window

Description This unit examines the operation of information technology for online data collection, information privacy and data governance laws and regulation. The unit focuses on the right to privacy, the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data and the legal framework for information protection. The framework for information privacy and data governance is established by both international and domestic law and regulation. The unit introduces the basic legal framework for information privacy protection and governance under the European Union's Commission, the OECD Guidelines for the Protection of Privacy and Trans-Border Flows of Personal data and under the Australian Privacy protection framework. The unit compares the information governance policy and framework in the European Union and the United States with that in Australia.

School Law

Discipline Law, Not Elsewhere Classified.

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 4 10cp

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Level Undergraduate Level 3 subject

Pre-requisite(s) LAWS 2003

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Recognise the legal issues that arise from the use of information technologies in cyberspace;
2. Apply the basic international and national legal framework, the policy to information privacy and data governance laws and regulation to related legal issues for law reform;
3. Use critical thinking and research to resolve related legal issues in oral and/or written forms.

Subject Content

- theoretical approaches to information and data Governance Law
- information and data Governance legal frameworks in The European union
- OECD guidelines for The protection of Privacy and trans-border flows of personal data
- Australian Privacy protection and information Governance framework
- impact of international and national laws and regulation on Privacy and data Governance policies
- challenges for regulators in providing adequate and effective protection information and data Governance laws and regulation in cyberspace