Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description A growing body of law is emerging to address the challenges of the digital revolution. Ensuring the respect of fundamental rights in the digital society, such as the right to privacy, equality and non-discrimination, and freedom of information and expression, requires complex regulatory interventions addressing the power of public institutions and private multinational companies managing and selling online services. The European Union is playing a pioneering role in the field, recently proposing regulations on AI, online platforms, digital services, data governance, digital identity and cybersecurity. The EU regulatory model is being imitated by several countries around the world but at the same time alternative legal approaches have emerged in other jurisdictions, often generating situations of potential conflict of law. This module aims to offer a comparative analysis of digital law and policies, focusing in particular on three main regulatory areas: the protection of privacy in the digital context, the governance of the data-driven economy, and the regulation of AI technologies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Critically evaluate the emergence of digital acts in the EU and its potential impact on business, consumers, internet users and public bodies beyond EU borders. 2. Analyse the key challenges of protecting digital rights and sovereignty in Europe while avoiding imperialistic or colonialist attitudes towards non-EU countries. 3. Analyse and have a systematic understanding of the differences between the EU and the US approach to privacy law. 4. Critically assess ECtHR case law on data protection and privacy. 5. Analyse and have a systematic understanding of AI regulation in Europe. 6. Analyse and have a comprehensive understanding of recent EU regulatory and policy initiatives in the field of online services, cybersecurity, and data governance. 7. Critically understand the implications of digitalisation and digital regulation on the green transition. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Indicative contentInternational privacy models: EU, US and UK; Digital constitutionalism in the EU: towards a progressive 'actification'; Brussels vs California effect: EU-US tensions in the data privacy field; Global digital sovereignty tensions; The right to privacy and the role of the ECtHR; Regulating AI in Europe and beyond; The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act; Digital identity and Cybersecurity; Connectivity and Open Data; The interplay between the digital and green transition. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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