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Personal Data Protection Law

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:05
Study Course Information
Course Code:JF_511LQF level:Level 6
Credit Points:4.00ECTS:6.00
Branch of Science:LawTarget Audience:Civil and Military Defense; Juridical Science
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:Juris Zīvarts
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:Faculty of Social Sciences
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szfatrsu[pnkts]lv
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)24Lecture Length (academic hours)2Total Contact Hours of Lectures48
Classes (count)8Class Length (academic hours)2Total Contact Hours of Classes16
Total Contact Hours64
Part-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)8Lecture Length (academic hours)2Total Contact Hours of Lectures16
Classes (count)4Class Length (academic hours)2Total Contact Hours of Classes8
Total Contact Hours24
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Prior knowledge in Administrative Law and Human Rights (basics) is required.
Objective:
To introduce students to the basics of personal data security. To promote students' ability to independently analyze personal data security issues, while explaining the theoretical basis and foundations of personal data security, paying attention to current personal data security issues today. Tasks: to provide information on personal data, requirements to be followed when processing personal data, responsibility for violations in the processing of personal data.
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.TopicType of ImplementationNumberVenue
1Protection of personal data in the world, in Latvia and in Europe.Lectures4.00auditorium
2Analysis of physical personal data protection violations in Latvia and the world.Lectures6.00auditorium
3Specificity of legal acts on data protection of natural persons.Lectures4.00auditorium
4Protection of personal data and special legal norms, principles of personal data protection.Lectures5.00auditorium
5Rights of the data subject and consent of the data subject to the processing of personal data.Lectures2.00auditorium
Classes4.00auditorium
6Responsibilities of the controller and personal data operator, including mandatory technical and organizational requirements.Lectures3.00auditorium
Classes4.00auditorium
Topic Layout (Part-Time)
No.TopicType of ImplementationNumberVenue
1Protection of personal data in the world, in Latvia and in Europe.Lectures1.00auditorium
2Analysis of physical personal data protection violations in Latvia and the world.Lectures2.00auditorium
3Specificity of legal acts on data protection of natural persons.Lectures2.00auditorium
4Protection of personal data and special legal norms, principles of personal data protection.Lectures1.00auditorium
5Rights of the data subject and consent of the data subject to the processing of personal data.Lectures1.00auditorium
Classes2.00auditorium
6Responsibilities of the controller and personal data operator, including mandatory technical and organizational requirements.Lectures1.00auditorium
Classes2.00auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
Practical work: preparation of individual projects (reports/essays), according to the topic. Systematic study of materials outside the auditorium, study of the specified literature and preparation for seminars.
Assessment Criteria:
A student who has attended less than half of the lectures and has not successfully completed the practical work between the exams may not be admitted to the exam. The final grade of the course is made up of the exam grade of 50%, the main criterion of which is the amount and quality of acquired knowledge; in practical work 50% (preparation of individual projects (papers/essays)).
Final Examination (Full-Time):Exam
Final Examination (Part-Time):Exam
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:To provide basic knowledge to prepare students for further learning about personal data and its protection. To introduce the most important personal data protection issues, to promote students' ability to identify and solve practical problems related to personal data protection issues. To introduce the most important concepts and terms of personal data protection, promoting the formation of legal thinking. To ensure that the acquired knowledge becomes the basis for further legal studies, while being able to apply it in practice.
Skills:After completing the course, the student will be able to analyze, synthesize and evaluate the place and role of physical personal data protection rights in professional work, develop scientific and research skills. Communication skills – the student will be able to communicate with other students of the legal science study program about the issues of physical personal data protection, demonstrate social skills and emotional intelligence. Orientation to further learning skills – will be able to independently structure their learning, analyze their level of knowledge and rationally supplement it, select and evaluate literature sources. Identify and formulate the problem, find causal relationships, i.e. the "root" of the problem and offer constructive solutions to the problem. Other general skills - will be able to take responsibility for one's decisions and actions, make critically evaluated decisions and find solutions in unforeseen and changing circumstances, adapt to new situations and be open to change, take leadership and initiative and be responsible for consequences, comply with ethical norms, demonstrate broad general knowledge and competences. Will be able to improve the skill of listening to different opinions.
Competencies:The student will be able to perform specific tasks related to the protection of physical personal data, will be able to use knowledge and skills in professional and personal development. Application of legal norms (in the field of personal data protection and other sectors) not only "mechanically", but in accordance with the interests and priorities of society, in this way synthesizing the skills to work with the base of regulatory acts and the understanding of law in general. Will be able to offer not only formal solutions to personal data problems, but to find solutions that would serve society's wishes and priorities.
Bibliography
No.Reference
Required Reading
1Latvijas Republikas Satversmes komentāri. VIII nodaļa. Cilvēka pamattiesības. Autoru kolektīvs prof. R.Baloža zin. vadībā. - Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 2011. (akceptējams izdevums)
2Informācijas atklātības likums.
3Arhīvu likums.
4Administratīvā procesa likums.
5Dokumentu pārvaldības likums.
6EIROPAS PARLAMENTA UN PADOMES REGULA (ES) 2016/679 (2016. gada 27. aprīlis) par fizisku personu aizsardzību attiecībā uz personas datu apstrādi un šādu datu brīvu apriti un ar ko atceļ Direktīvu 95/46/EK (Vispārīgā datu aizsardzības regula).
7Fizisko personu datu apstrādes likums.
Other Information Sources
1 https://likumi.lv/