IFSC 7360 - Data Protection and Privacy

Three credit hours.

This course considers the current status of data, information and privacy protection policies, laws and technologies. At the core is the variety of issues concerning informational privacy, i.e. the gathering, creating, storing, use and protection of information and data about individuals. Topics include the economics of data and privacy protection vis-a-vis the right of access to information, control, ownership, free flow, accuracy and use of information; commercial uses of personal information such as data mining and other marketing techniques, as well as the roles of government and the private sector in this setting. Newer information technologies, data mining, security measures, genetic tests and biobanks worldwide have raised important issues and questions.