Jean Monnet Chair
Prof. Avv. Giovanni Ziccardi, Phd.
European citizens’ fundamental rights online, data governance and cybersecurity in the Information Society: the European legal framework
The course is focused on the Legal Informatic analysis of the EU law related to data and information treatment following an integrated approach, which allows students to understand the importance of relevant changes in EU norms, not only in the field of personal data but also related to other kinds of data and of their impact on infrastructures and services within the information society.
DETAILED PROGRAM (in update)
FIRST SEMESTER COURSE
Academic Year 2021/2022 – September/December 2021
(6 CFU/ECTS)
Lesson #1 – 30 September 2021 (14:30 – 16:30)
Module 1: Personal data treatment within the European Union (1/5)
• Introduction to the Jean Monnet Course on data governance
• The concept of “data” and the data treatment
• What is Data Governance?
• Security and cybersecurity in the European Union legal framework
• The “economy of data”
• The ENISA activity
• Cybersecurity norms and Directives
• Personal data and fundamental rights of the European citizens
Lesson #2: 7 October 2021 (14:30 – 16:30)
Module 1: Personal data treatment within the European Union (2/5)
• An introduction to the GDPR
• Data Governance Vs Data Protection
• The Europeanisation of Data Protection
• Personal data processing within the EU end non-EU countries
• E-communication and privacy issues
• An introduction to security measures
Lesson #3: 14 October 2021 (14:30 – 16:30)
Module 1: Personal data treatment within the European Union (3/5)
• Small data and Big data society
• Digital transformation as an implementation of third-order technologies
• “Impact” and “Uncertainty” as a method of analysis
• Keys of geopolitical data governance
• Cybersecurity as a process
Lesson #4: 21 October 2021 (14:30 – 16:30)
Module 1: Personal data treatment within the European Union (4/5)
• Oblivion and digital journalism
• Data portability
For deepening research:
Voss, W. Gregory and Castets-Renard, Céline, Proposal for an International Taxonomy on the Various Forms of the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’: A Study on the Convergence of Norms (June 12, 2016). 14 Colorado Technology Law Journal 281 (2016) (Issue 14.2) (pp. 281-344). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3418877