This course will provide an overview of one of the crucial areas of law, namely the right to the protection of personal data and the right to privacy, provided by Articles 8 and 7 of the EU Charter. It will guide you through the different facets of data protection demonstrating the basics of data protection law in the light of primary and secondary EU law. This will not be only a theoretical exercise, as the content of this course is based on the experience gathered through exchanges with legal practitioners at the European and national level. They were asked to share the most insightful cases they dealt with in their practice and their most interesting decisions they encountered or handed down. These became some of the examples that you will find in this course.
The course will consider the protection of personal data provided by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a bridge for the judicial dialogue. It will be complemented by presentation of the variety of cases sourcing from pan European and national courts inviting the learners to put on judge’s hats and ruling on the legal problems emerging from the presented case studies.
The course will address in detail the interplay between data protection and cross-border digital technologies, paying particular attention to the territorial scope and cross-border data transfers as well as to the potential conflicts with other fundamental rights and interests, such as law enforcement, scientific research and property rights.
This is the fourth of five e-learning courses offered within the ambit of the e-NACT project, lead by the European University Institute based Centre for Judicial Cooperation with the participation of European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization and the variety of national institutions offering trainings to judges in the national contexts.