INFO3406 Privacy

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INFO3406 Privacy Data Protection

• Richard Howley
• Contact details provided at the end of the talk

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Outline of the talk

• 1. Why Privacy Data Protection (PDP)?
• 2. Module Aims
• 3. Module content
• 4. Module delivery pattern
• 5. Assessment
• 6. Conclusion

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Why Privacy Data Protection?

• Growth of databases rapid change in scale,
  speed and type of data usage
• Increasing application of IT to invade/protect
  privacy
• Global trade and data exchange
• Trust critical
• Increasing amount of legislation
• Its our job!

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Module Aims

• Examine history current context of PDP
• Consider existing emerging threats to privacy
• Review range of technology and systems practices
  we can use to protect our privacy
• Examine the role of IS/IT professional in
  relation to threats and legislation
• Examine PDP from a multinational perspective -
  global information systems
• Throughout the role of the IS/IT professional
  paramount
• Academic, theoretical and not hands-on!

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Module content - Lectures

• Theoretical aspects of privacy
• The role of privacy in IS Development
• PDP the global perspective
• Marketing technology uses and abuses
• Surveillance theory, technology and
  applications
• Privacy in response to terrorism
• DP and its relationship to privacy. The current
  DP/FOI legal framework
• Security and PDP
• PDP the IS professional at least 4 weeks
  covering PDP in PM, SAD implementation
• Privacy Enabling/Invasive Technologies
• Outsourcing controls and DPD
• Management of PDP / Auditing

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Module content - tutorials

• Agree coursework titles
• Define assessment criteria/weighting
• How to conduct a literature review
• How to write an analytical, synoptic, reflective
  and integrative paper
• How to present it mini presentation
• Privacy and Surveillance theory
• Student assessed presentation on coursework
  titles and discussion led by staff with model
  answers

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Assessment

• CourseworkExam (3070)
• Coursework
• Academic paper (/70)
• Presentation (/30)
• You define the assessment criteria
• You assess the presentations
• Exam
• Section A compulsory
• Section B selection 2 from 4 questions
• Work must be critical, synoptic, reflective and
  integrative

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Conclusion

• Module links well with
• INFO3412/3424 Ethics modules
• Advanced academic module
• Always changing and topical
• Big issues for your IS/IT future
• Thank you - Any questions
• Next slide repeats contact details for info

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INFO3406 Privacy Data Protection

• Richard Howley
• GH 5.71
• 0116 207 8268
• rgh_at_dmu.ac.uk
• http//www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/rgh Copy of these
  slides posted there for info