Learning outcomes

To teach the legal answers to the questions linked to new threats and risks for privacy and personal data raised by the technological developments

Goals

Familiarize students with the data protection regime arising from the European Data Protection Regulation (RGPD), Belgian laws supplementing it, European case law, as well as rules specific to electronic communications and surveillance.

This course is justified by the growing impact of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) on society, democracy and individual freedoms.

Content

The reasons of this course lie in the growing impact ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) have on society, democracy and individual freedoms.

This course focuses on privacy and personal data protection in the current technical developments context (creation of data bases, videosurveillance, danger for privacy deriving from the Internet, controls on the workplace, connected objects, Internet of Things, Big Data,...). The course presents the regulation adopted in response to these new dangers as well as the most important case-law.

Table of contents

The course will be divided as follows:

  • Introduction to privacy.
  • Privacy in the international context.
  • The RGPD:
    • concepts and scope
    • Principles, legitimate grounds and sensitive data
    • Data subjects' rights
    • Obligations of data controllers and processors
    • Data Protection Authority; European Data Protection Board, sanctions and remedies
    • Personal data flows to third countries and international organizations
    • e-privacy directive and lex specialis

These division and content may change during the year.

 

Assessment method

Evaluation is by oral examination (100%) based on an analysis of a concrete case, with 15 to 20 minutes preparation time and a presentation in front of the 3 teachers followed by more specific questions.

Sources, references and any support material

A slide show and documents are available on Webcampus

Language of instruction

Français