Information Law

Code:

MCI0009

Acronym:

DI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Science

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Informatics Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCI	16	Plano de estudos oficial	1	-	6	42	162
MHP	4	MHP - Study Plan	1	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The course aims to provide an integrated study of the themes, concepts and fundamental legal concepts under the Right to Information.

In addition to the systematic approach of law applicable to different forms and contents of the information will be dealt with new issues arising from the interaction between information, law and technology, especially in the digital environment.

The aim is to provide students with the essential tools of understanding of Information Law based on examples that might be useful in their future activity, as one of the factors to be considered in development projects of information systems and communication.

Learning outcomes and competences

UC aims to enable Students to the following:

a) to know and apply the mechanisms that the law provides for access to, and reuse of, administrative documents;
b) to frame and apply in different areas the regime regarding the protection of personal data and privacy, especially in the digital environment;
c) apply the system of copyright and related rights in training or professional projects;
(d) understand the interactions between the legal regimes of information law and the law of communication, and the limits of freedom of expression and public use of information;
e) to know the main innovations of the GDPR, with emphasis on new processes and the role of new figures (especially the Data Protection Officer), including the impact of this Regulation on Information Science;
f) to know the main issues in cybersecurity, cybercrime, and liability for data loss.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The Information Law and the Information Society.
1.1. Legal framework.
2. Portuguese law and access to procedural and administrative information.
3. European Union law
3.1. Basic concepts.
3.2. Especially applied to ICT.
4. Copyright Law and ICT.
5. Regulation of Content and Law.
6. Protection of Privacy and Law.
7. Data protection and Information Science
7.1. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95 / 46 / EC (GDPR).
7.2. The national dimension of data protection.
7.3. Data protection and US law.
8. Cybersecurity and Cybercrime.
9. Liability issues in collecting, managing and storing data.

Mandatory literature

ASCENÇÃO, José de Oliveira e VICENTE, Dário Moura; Legislação sobre Direito de Autor e Sociedade da Informação, Coimbra Editora, 2014
FAZENDEIRO, Ana; Regulamento Geral sobre a Proteção de Dados – algumas notas sobre o RGPD, Almedina, 2017
GOMES, José Luís Caramelo; Lições de Direito da União Europeia, Almedina, 2014
MAGALHÃES, Filipa Matias e PEREIRA, Maria Leitão; Regulamento Geral de Proteção de Dados – Manual Prático, Vida Económica, 2017

Complementary Bibliography

CASTRO, Catarina Sarmento et al.; Direito da Informática, Privacidade e Dados Pessoais, Almedina, 2005
Condesso Fernando dos Reis; Direito da Comunicação Social. ISBN: 978-972-40-3204-7
MARQUES, Garcia e MARTINS, Lourenço; Direito da Informática, Almedina, 2006
PAIS, Sofia Oliveira; Direito da União Europeia – legislação e jurisprudência fundamentais, Quid Iuris editora, 2016

Teaching methods and learning activities

A set of teaching and learning methods will be used, which includes lectures, Socratic method (dialogue between teacher and student, in the classroom, which leads, through questions and answers, to the specific learning objective of that class), case study (the study of judicial decisions that represent the dynamics of a given branch of law or in a certain legal subject or institute), and problem based learning (which has as its central tool the analysis of complex, real or hypothetical cases involving legal and not legal, at a time when the student has not yet acquired the specific knowledge about the central theme of the process).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Teste	40,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	1,00
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Frequência das aulas	55,00
Trabalho escrito	52,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Completion of two (2) tests and the assignment with presentation in class and preparation of a written report. Minimum grade of 40% in the written component (tests). Non performance of any of these components determines failure by this method of assessment. During the presentation of the reports, there will be a mandatory Q&A period directed by the professor - answering the questions is taken into account for assessment, and the answers are part of the assessment.

The presentation evaluation criteria are: - General appearance - Rigor - Mastery of the topic - Adequacy of content The evaluation criteria for written reports are: - Relevance of the topic in the context of the UC - Coherence between content and theme - Respect for formal instructions - Quality and adequacy of the bibliography - Overall quality of the report The use of LLM is permitted. However, it must be duly noted and recognized under penalty of academic fraud. The language of presentations and reports is Portuguese.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final classificação (CF):

CF = (grade test 1 x 0.20) + (grade test 2 x 0.20) + (grade after presentation in class a x 0.40) + (grade of report x 0,20).

Examinations or Special Assignments

N/A.

Internship work/project

N/A.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

N/A.

Classification improvement

Grade improvement requires the enrolment in the following edition of the curricular unit.

Observations

N/A