Basic knowledge of Public Law and European Law could be useful.

The course aims to provide proper knowledge of the European Data Protection law, paying particular attention to its background, terminology, fundamental principles, and rules. Independent supervisions and data subjects' rights will be examined as well as the specific types of data (i.e., sensitive data) and relevant data protection rules.
Given the speed of development in the IT sector, a proactive approach by students will be encouraged: the course will develop their ability to independently identify and manage legal issues arising from modern challenges in personal data protection like Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The first part of the course will set out the evolution of Data Protection Law, paying particular attention to:

- Context and background of European Data Protection law;
- Data Protection terminology;
- key principles of European Data Protection law;
- rules of European Data Protection law;
- independent supervision (EDPB);
- data subjects' rights and their enforcement;
- specific types of data and their relevant data protection rules.

In the second part, the course will be based on non-frontal didactics. It will be carried out through laboratories and teamwork, dedicated to the in-depth study of specific topics falling within the macro-theme Modern challenges in personal data protection, i.e., Big data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence, the webs 2.0 and 3.0: social networks and Internet of Things.

• 1.  (A) European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and Council of Europe Handbook on European data protection law European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and Council of Europe, ---, 2018 » Pagine/Capitoli: pp. 1-247; 325-370

NB - THE HANDBOOK IS AVAILABLE (free download) in https://fra.europa.eu/en/themes/data-protection - Products. STUDENTS MUST DOWNLOAD THE LATEST EDITION PUBLISHED.

The indicated parts of the handbook contain the whole non-attendant students' program.

Other materials for attendants students will be provided during the course.

• Lectures will be limited to the minimum necessary and will alternate with "dialogical lessons" (about case law) during the first part of the course, which will continue with:
  - Laboratories (teamwork)
  - Exercises
  - seminar meetings with experts (if possible)

• For attending students, the exam will be an essay on a topic agreed upon with the professor.
  For non-attending students, it will be an oral exam and the students will have to answer three questions about the subjects of the course.
  In both cases, evaluation criteria will be the completeness of preparation, clarity and correct use of technical terminology, the ability to frame the subject, the ability to independently identify legal issues arising from the evolution of the Internet.
  

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