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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_511 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
Branch of Science: | Law | Target 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, szfrsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
Study Course Planning | |||||||||
Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 24 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 48 | ||||
Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 64 | ||||||||
Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
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. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | Protection of personal data in the world, in Latvia and in Europe. | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
2 | Analysis of physical personal data protection violations in Latvia and the world. | Lectures | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
3 | Specificity of legal acts on data protection of natural persons. | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
4 | Protection of personal data and special legal norms, principles of personal data protection. | Lectures | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||
5 | Rights of the data subject and consent of the data subject to the processing of personal data. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||||
6 | Responsibilities of the controller and personal data operator, including mandatory technical and organizational requirements. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||||
Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | Protection of personal data in the world, in Latvia and in Europe. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
2 | Analysis of physical personal data protection violations in Latvia and the world. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
3 | Specificity of legal acts on data protection of natural persons. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
4 | Protection of personal data and special legal norms, principles of personal data protection. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
5 | Rights of the data subject and consent of the data subject to the processing of personal data. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
6 | Responsibilities of the controller and personal data operator, including mandatory technical and organizational requirements. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
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 | |||||||||
1 | Latvijas Republikas Satversmes komentāri. VIII nodaļa. Cilvēka pamattiesības. Autoru kolektīvs prof. R.Baloža zin. vadībā. - Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 2011. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
2 | Informācijas atklātības likums. | ||||||||
3 | Arhīvu likums. | ||||||||
4 | Administratīvā procesa likums. | ||||||||
5 | Dokumentu pārvaldības likums. | ||||||||
6 | EIROPAS 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). | ||||||||
7 | Fizisko personu datu apstrādes likums. | ||||||||
Other Information Sources | |||||||||
1 | https://likumi.lv/ |