Data Protection and Intellectual Property, LLM

The digitization of information has brought about a multitude of data harvesting and processing technologies operating on a global scale. Information processing has become essential to finance and commerce and advances in public health, education, crime prevention, and economic growth. Yet, many of these benefits require significant privacy and informational autonomy compromises. This course will explore non-personal data laws (confidentiality and database laws), cybersecurity, privacy tort, electronic signatures and contracting, trademarks and domain names, e-commerce regulation, and the audio-visual media services directive.