Law and Privacy

Code:

DIR4000

Acronym:

DIR4000

Level:

400

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Law

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Computer Science
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Information Security

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M:SI	28	Study plan since 2020/2021	2	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The main aim of the unit is to call the students attention to the major legal aspects that the use of technology involves, specially related with privacy. Students shall take the legal solutions in account when solving a technical problem.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students will be expected to be familiar with the legal instruments, doctrine and jurisprudence related to their activity as computing experts, and to develop skills to solve practical problems.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

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Program

1. Computing and privacy. Privacy in Constitutional, Civil and Criminal Law
1.1. The “Use of information technology” in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic
1.2. The recognition and protection of the personality of the individual and personality rights in civil law
2. The protection of physical, vital and moral inviolability and the use of information technology
2.1. Unauthorised disclosure of images, video and sound recordings
2.2. Circles of privacy
2.3. Data protection and the new GDPR
2.3.1. Principles relating to processing of personal data
2.3.2. Right to erasure or “right to be forgotten”
2.4. Electronic commerce and privacy
2.4.1. Social networking, consumer profiles and direct marketing
2.4.2. Unsolicited publicity, spam, and the “right to be alone”
2.4.3. “Identity theft” and payment fraud in e-commerce
3. Computing and Crime
3.1. The Portuguese Penal Code
3.2. “Cibercrime law” (L n. 109/2009, 15.09)
3.3. Legal proof issues

Mandatory literature

Cordeiro, A.B.M.; Direito da proteção de dados: à luz do RGPD e da Lei n.º 58/2019, Almedina, 2020. ISBN: 97897240-83049
Dias (dir.); Comentário Conimbricense do Código Penal, Coimbra Editora, 1999
FRA/ECTHR/EDPS; Handbook on European data protection law, Council of Europe, 2018. ISBN: 9789287198495 (https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-coe-edps-2018-handbook-data-protection_en.pdf)
Guedes, I. S. / Gomes, M. A. de M.; Cibercriminalidade: novos desafios, ofensas e soluções, Pactor, 2021
Guimarães, M.R.; A tutela da pessoa e da sua personalidade:
algumas questões relativas aos direitos à imagem,
à reserva da vida privada e à reserva da pessoa íntima ou direito ao carácter, CEJ, 2017. ISBN: 9789729122989 (http://www.cej.mj.pt/cej/recursos/ebooks/civil/eb_TutelaP2017.pdf)
Guimarães, M.R.; Inteligência artificial, profiling e direitos de personalidade, Direito e Inteligência Artificial, Almedina, 2023. ISBN: 9789894014348
Guimarães, M.R.; “‘Na minha conta ou na tua?’ Revisitação do regime aplicável às operações de pagamento fraudulentas à luz da nova Proposta de um Regulamento relativo aos serviços de pagamento no mercado interno, de 28 de Junho de 2023, A Revista, 4, STJ, 2023. ISBN: 27955486
Pinheiro, A.S.; Comentário ao Regulamento Geral de Proteção de dados, Almedina, 2018. ISBN: 9789724077864
Venâncio; Lei do cibercrime anotada e comentada, Wolters Kluwer/Coimbra Editora, 2011

Complementary Bibliography

Calvão, F.U.; Direito da proteção de dados pessoais, UCP, 2018
Cruz, Cardoso, Leite, Faria (coord.); Infracções Económicas e Financeiras: Estudos de Criminologia e Direito, FDUP/Coimbra Editora, 2013
Fernandes, J.M.C.D.; O contrato de fornecimento de acesso à internet e o princípio da neutralidade da rede: contributo para a regulação do ciberespaço, CIJE/FDUP, 2017. ISBN: 21829845 (https://cije.up.pt/pt/red/edicoes-anteriores/2017-nordm-1/o-contrato-de-fornecimento-de-acesso-a-internet-e-o-principio-da-neutralidade-da-rede-contributo-para-a-regulacao-do-ciberespaco/)
Guimarães ; O contrato-quadro no âmbito da utilização de meios de pagamento electrónicos, Wolters Kluwer/Coimbra Editora, 2011
Homem, M.C.; A formação do contrato no comércio electrónico, CIJE/FDUP, 2013. ISBN: 21829845 (https://cije.up.pt/pt/red/edicoes-anteriores/2013-nordm-1/a-formacao-dos-contratos-no-comercio-electronico/)

Comments from the literature

(The references supra can be reached at the Faculty of Law's Library)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of the themes and demonstration of their practical implications through examples and the use of jurisprudence. Students are encouraged to participate in class discussion and to give verbal feedback of the legal solutions to the problems that are solved by the group.
Students shall develop individual presentations.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	6,00
Estudo autónomo	84,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Frequency is achieved by class participation, by given a presentation and by a final exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

Distributed frequency is achieved by classroom participation and by the presentation of a oral paper on one of the topics of the programme. The final grade calculation (0-20) will depend on the final exam grade (60%), classroom participation and paper presentation (10%+30%).The final exam is a written exam.
The minimum grade in each component is 8.