COMP9039 Law - Week 11 Data protection & the GDPR

Four and half hours of EU regulations in every dose

Earlier in the week I recorded lectures on the GDPR. Rather than waiting until I had the audio edited and synchronised with the slides in video form I e-mailed the raw audio to students along with the slides.  The files are on Blackboard now also. The audio file is 4.5 hours long. So obviously I don't expect anyone to get through it in one sitting.  It's guaranteed to send you to sleep it you try.

Today I uploaded e-mailed some articles and notes that elaborate on the "legitimate interest" justification for data processing.  The GDPR isn't especially informative on that.

No one attended the live session tonight.

Although the GDPR lecture largely concludes our business I will be online again next week to answer any questions or help with any issues.

COMP9039 Law Week 10 - Privacy

We had a lecture on Privacy and Data Protection. No students attended the live session.

There was some issue and the audio did not record. So the recording is of no value to students.

COMP9039 Law Week 09 - CyberCrime

This was a live session.

I was interrupted by a fire alarm.  The recordings are available to registered students on Adobe Connect. I also sent an e-mail with the URLs

COMP9039 Law Week 08 Trade Secrets & Patents

This was a live session.

The recording is available  to registered students on Adobe Connect. I also sent an e-mail with the URL

COMP9039 Week 07 Trademarks & UDRP

This week we looked at the law of trademarks

and the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure.





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Students who want to more more about trade marks can watch these extra classes. But these are not necessary for this module.

COMP9039 Week 06 - Copyright IV & The Database Right

This week we looked at communication to the public and the issue surround linking to content that is legally placed online

We looked at the ways in which  a database can be protected in Europe.


In the live session there were some questions about contract law. I e-mailed on a transcript of that discussion to students.

COMP9039 Week 05 Copyright II & III

Copyright - Part II

Copyright - Part III

In the live session we discussed the contract law case studies.

COMP9039 Unit 04 (Week 04) Intellectual Property / Copyright

Into to Intellectual Property

Copyright - Part I

Only one student attended the live session. S/he had no questions. So although there is a recording of the first part of the session there is nothing of value in it for students.

I did receive some questions about the assessment by e-mail. I will compose a response to those and e-mail the class.

I will also e-mail and upload some notes in due course.

COMP9039 Law Unit 03 Contract Law

I posted the Unit 03 video to on Blackboard along with two fictional contract cases for studebts to consider. We will discuss those cases and deal with questions in the live session.

COMP9039 Law Unit 02 Sources of Law

Exercises

If you have experience or knowledge of the legal system of another county I’d be grateful if you could prepare a short report for the rest of us. I am interested to know in what ways it may be similar to Ireland (e.g. is there a Constitution?) and in what ways it may be different. That report  can take any form (YouTube video, audio, written report, or just tell us in the live session).

I’d like everyone to do the following.

1. Find the Spanish Civil War Act. 

When was it passed?

Check the Commencement, Amendments, SIs made under the Act to find out when it was repealed?

2. Find Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company and download the judgement in the appeal.

(Try to) Read it. Notice how much emphasis is placed on how this case is similar or different to previous cases.

Which Acts of Parliament are mentioned in this case?

Save it for later.

3. Find and download the Irish Data Protection Act

Save it for later

4. Find and download the UK Data Protection Act

Save it for later

5. Find and download the Data Protection Directive

Save it for later

6. Find and download the General Data Protection Regulation

Save it for later

7. Find and download Khurshid Mustafa and Tarzibachi v. Sweden

Read it. Can you think of any implications of this case for the Internet?

COMP9039 Unit 01

We will have our first live session on Thursday (14 Sep) starting at 1810.

On Thursday I plan to

Introduce myself

Discuss the syllabus

Discuss the material covered in the video

Answer any questions

If you could have all that done by Thursday lunchtime that would be great. Although I have put the questions up on Blackboard it might be simpler if you submit your responses to me by e-mail or add them as comments here: http://colinmcit.blogspot.ie/2017/09/comp9039-law-unit-01.html. The spam filter is turned on so comments won’t be public right away.

Please take the time to complete these exercises because they allow both you and me to confirm that you have a good grasp of the material. If, for example, I get poor answers on a particular area I can correct any misunderstandings or deficiencies.

If you already have questions and you can e-mail them to me in advance I may have a more through answer for you, but of course you are free to ask questions on the night too.

Some of you may have extensive experience of using Adobe connect already.  Please have some patience with those of us who are new to it.

COMP9039 Law Unit 01 Sources of Ethics & Morality

Unit 01: Sources of Ethics & Morality

Listen to the BBC Documentary "Would you kill the big guy?" Part 1 & Part 2

Please go to http://moralmachine.mit.edu and take part in the experiment.

I have generated some exercises for you that you can complete in Blackboard.  In case you can’t log in just yet, here are some exercises you can complete without Blackboard. But ideally you will submit your answers to Blackboard.

1. Find an example online of an supernaturalist argument against the use of a particular kind of technology. (You need not confine yourself to information technology)

Provide the link and a brief summary of the argument.


2. Find an example of a moral dilemma in popular culture (ideally TV/Film). What kind of logic does the character(s) use to deal with the dilemma?


3. Would you push the fat man? Why/Why Not?


4. What results did you get from http://moralmachine.mit.edu ?