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Personal Data Protection Law
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:07
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_301 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law; Theory and History of Rights | Target Audience: | Person and Property Defence | ||||||
| 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, szf rsu[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: | Administrative Law and Human Rights Law (basics). | ||||||||
| Objective: | Introduce students to the basics of personal data security. Facilitate the students’ ability to independently analyse personal data security issues, while simultaneously explaining the theoretical basis and foundations of personal data security, focusing on current issues of personal data security nowadays. Tasks: provide information on personal data, requirements to be met when processing personal data, liability for violations in the processing of personal data of individuals. | ||||||||
| 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 personal data protection violations in Latvia and in the world. | Lectures | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The specific nature of the laws and regulations for the protection of personal data. | Lectures | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Personal data protection and special rules of law, the 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 administrator and the personal data operator, including mandatory technical and organisational 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 personal data protection violations in Latvia and in the world. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The specific nature of the laws and regulations for the protection of personal data. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Personal data protection and special rules of law, the 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 administrator and the personal data operator, including mandatory technical and organisational requirements. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Drawing up of individual projects (reports / essays) according to the topic. Systematic study of materials and the specified literature outside the classroom and preparation for seminars. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | A student who has attended less than half of the lectures and has not passed the practical work of the examination may not be allowed to take a test. The final assessment for the course consists of a mark for the examination, the main criterion of which is the amount and quality of the acquired knowledge. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students acquire basic knowledge in order to prepare for further understanding of personal data and their protection. Acquaint with the most important issues of personal data protection, promote students’ ability to identify and address problems of practical nature related to personal data protection issues. Present the most important concepts and terms of personal data protection, facilitating the formation of legal thinking. Ensure that the acquired knowledge becomes the basis for future law studies, while being able to apply it in practice. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Analyse, synthesise and evaluate the place and role of the personal data protection rights in professional work and develop scientific-research skills. Communication skills – communicate with other students of the law science study programme on issues of personal data protection; demonstrate social skills and emotional intelligence. Orientation for further learning skills – constantly structuring own learning, analysing own level of knowledge and rationally add to, select and evaluate the sources of literature. Identify and formulate problems, find their causal relationship, i.e., the root of the problem and other constructive solutions to the problem. Other general skills - take responsibility for their decisions and activities, make rational decisions and find solutions in unforeseen and changing circumstances, adapt to new situations and be open to change, take leadership and initiative and face up to consequences, comply with ethical standards, demonstrate broad general knowledge and competences. Improve the ability to listen to different opinions. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The ability to perform certain tasks related to individual data protection, capability to use knowledge and skills in professional and personal development. Application of the law (individual data protection industry and other sectors) not only "mechanically" but accordingly society interest and priorities, thus developing the skills to work with the regulatory enactments and understanding law as a whole. To offer not only formal issue solution in the field of children's rights, but to find solutions that would serve the needs and priorities of the community (local community), as well as to improve government in general. | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| 2 | Informācijas atklātības likums | ||||||||
| 3 | Arhīvu likums | ||||||||
| 4 | Administratīvā procesa likums | ||||||||
| 5 | Dokumentu pārvaldības | ||||||||
| 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/ | ||||||||
