Introduction
People can easily become victims of data protection violations brought on by the widespread use of information and communication technologies by public and private bodies. Web-based activities, direct marketing, and video surveillance account for most violations. Even when remedies exist in civil, criminal and administrative law, enforcement is not always ensured.
The right
to privacy and personal data are protected both by the legal instruments
developed by the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Union (EU). Article 8
of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) guarantees the right to
respect for private and family life, home and correspondence. The wording of
Article 7 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (EU Charter) is almost
identical. In addition, the EU Charter explicitly mentions in Article 8 the
right to data protection, considering it as a fundamental right in itself.
The HELP course on Data
Protection and Privacy Rights addresses this need and offers a comprehensive
curriculum which covers in an interactive way the key concepts, the legal
framework of the CoE and the EU (directly applicable at national level), the
case law or the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and of the Court of
Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and specific areas of data protection
Module 1 - Legal Framework
Not published to studentsCurrentModule 2 - Key Concepts and the Scope of Data Protection Law
Not published to studentsCurrentModule 3 - The Key Principles and Rules of European Data Protection Law
Not published to studentsCurrentModule 4 - Privacy Rights and Health Data
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Not published to studentsCurrentOne of the rights likely to come into conflict with the right to privacy and the right to data protection is freedom of expression which is protected both by ECHR ( Article 10) and the Charter on Fundamental Rights (Article 11).
When such conflict occurs, courts must strike a balance in order to establish the preeminence of one right over the other.Module 6 - Data protection, Privacy rights and E-Communications
Not published to studentsCurrentModule 7 - Data Protection/Privacy Rights and New Technologies
Not published to studentsCurrentModule 8 - Data protection and privacy rights in the workplace
Not published to studentsCurrentModule 9 - Data subjects’ rights and their enforcement
Not published to studentsCurrentModule 10 - International Data Flows
Not published to studentsCurrentFinal Evaluation Test
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