Menu

Ethics, Compliance & Legal Regulations

Niveau

Master's course

Learning outcomes of the courses/module

The following skills are developed in the course:

- Students are familiar with further ethical and legal requirements for data processing.
- Students can apply these advanced requirements to data-driven projects.
- Students are able to analyze the use of large quantities of data and exploitation strategies based on these ethical and legal frameworks and to develop procedures based on them.

Prerequisites for the course

No prerequisites

Course content

The following content is discussed in the course:

- Data protection (e.g. DSGVO)
- Privacy (e-Privacy Regulation)
- Handling of data from an ethical/moral point of view
- Compliance

Recommended specialist literature

PRIMARY LITERATURE:
- Gola, P.; Reif, Y. (2016): Praxisfälle Datenschutzrecht: Juristische Sachverhalte Schritt für Schritt prüfen, bewerten und lösen (Ed. 2), DATAKONTEXT, Frechen (ISBN: 978-3895777677)

SECONDARY LITERATURE:
- Floridi, L. (2015): The Ethic of Information (Ed. 1), Oxford University Press, Oxford (ISBN: 978-0198748052)
- Lynskey, O. (2016): The Foundations of EU Data Protection Law (Ed. 1), Oxford University Press, Oxford (ISBN: 978-0-19-871823-9)
- Taeger, J. (2014): Datenschutzrecht: Einführung (Ed. 1), Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main (ISBN: 978-3800515370)
- Worms, N. (2010): Informationsethik und Online-Netzwerke: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen strukturellen Bedingtheit und Privatsphäre (Ed. 1), VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken (ISBN: 978-3639320602)

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Language

English

Number of ECTS credits awarded

3

Share of e-learning in %

30

Semester hours per week

1.5

Planned teaching and learning method

The following methods are used:

- Lecture with discussion

Semester/trimester in which the course/module is offered

4

Name of lecturer

Mag. Lothar Gamper

Academic year

Key figure of the course/module

MDS.4

Type of course/module

integrated lecture

Type of course

Compulsory

Internship(s)

none