LWQ702 Data Privacy and Security
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| Unit code: | LWQ702 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $1,597 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,480 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | LWQ702 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This unit introduces you to the knowledge and skills you will need to find and analyse the laws, legal principles and regulations that protect privacy in the use of digital data, particularly involving personal information and the security issues that flow. . This unit will also further your knowledge and skills in locating, analysing and applying laws, legal principles and regulations, to real world problems in the digital context.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply a working knowledge of the legal vocabulary of information privacy and security (CLO 4.1).
- Describe how legislation, regulation and the common law system operate to protect privacy in relation to digital data, particularly personal information (CLOs 1.1, 4.2, 4.3).
- Assess the relevance to Australian organisations of European Union and other transnational organisations' privacy regulations (CLO 2.2).
- Evaluate and apply relevant laws, legal principles, regulations and ethical principles to identify the privacy and security risks involved in handling personal information (CLOs 1.3, 2.1, 5.1).
- Reflect on how your understanding of the legal implications of being responsible for the handling of personal information (CLOs 4.3, 6.1).
Content
In this unit you will explore:
- The vocabulary and key concepts of information privacy law, including security obligations.
- The sources of the laws, legal principles and regulations that apply to regulate information privacy and security in relation to digital data, particularly personal information.
- The extent to which the laws or regulations of other nations and transnational organisations affect personal information compliance obligations in Australia.
- How to locate and apply privacy and security laws, legal principles and regulations.
Learning Approaches
This unit employs case study and inquiry-based learning approaches to structure and conceptualise the unit content and to engage you in learning. The learning experiences provide you with the chance to think creatively, and produce material evidence of your preparedness for examining information privacy and security legal risks involved in organisational uses of digital data, including personal information.
The unit is taught as a fully online learning experience and is facilitated by a unit coordinator using an active and self-directed approach to learning. This approach requires you to complete online pre-workshop activities independently, prior to attending virtual design and creative problem-solving workshops conducted in online collaborative learning spaces.
Your participation in the unit will include:
- Independent engagement with online learning materials prior to participating in collaborative workshops in order to receive the most benefit from the workshop and to apply your new knowledge and skills.
- Interactive, creative problem-solving workshops that facilitate collaborative exploration of content, problem solving and skill practice in critical analysis, giving and receiving feedback, and effective communication. The interactive workshops will use technologies for both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration which will provide an authentic context for the development of your digital literacies.
- Completion of online formative activities to check your knowledge and practice your skills.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative exercises will be discussed in class.
- comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets
- generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas
- criteria sheet grading
- feedback from peers
Assessment
Overview
You will complete both formative and summative assessment in this unit. Your formative assessment will be by way of online quizzes and tests.
You will complete two summative assessment items. The first item of summative assessment will be a Problem Solving Task in which you will be required to present your analysis of the legal risks of using personal information in a particular organisational situation.
The second item of summative assessment will be a case study project that allows you to develop further a topic of interest learned on the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz
In this assessment item you will answer a combination of multiple choice and short answer questions to assess your knowledge of the legal vocabulary of information privacy and security and demonstrate your understanding of how legislation, regulation and the common law system operate to protect privacy in relation to digital data, particularly personal information.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
Acting in an in-house legal role, you will consider a scenario involving the proposed use of personal information within an organisation. You will identify and analyse the laws and regulations that apply to the scenario.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Case Study Project
During the unit, you will be required to identify a real life case study that entails an organisational information privacy or security issue, such as a data breach, an unauthorised disclosure or an unfair collection. You will then be required to identify the key information privacy and security concerns that arise from the case study. Finally, you will be asked to reflect on the adequacy of Australian information privacy law, particularly in relation to EU developments.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
QUT Canvas site
Risk Assessment Statement
Nil
Unit Outline: Session 4 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | LWQ702 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This unit introduces you to the knowledge and skills you will need to find and analyse the laws, legal principles and regulations that protect privacy in the use of digital data, particularly involving personal information and the security issues that flow. . This unit will also further your knowledge and skills in locating, analysing and applying laws, legal principles and regulations, to real world problems in the digital context.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply a working knowledge of the legal vocabulary of information privacy and security (CLO 4.1).
- Describe how legislation, regulation and the common law system operate to protect privacy in relation to digital data, particularly personal information (CLOs 1.1, 4.2, 4.3).
- Assess the relevance to Australian organisations of European Union and other transnational organisations' privacy regulations (CLO 2.2).
- Evaluate and apply relevant laws, legal principles, regulations and ethical principles to identify the privacy and security risks involved in handling personal information (CLOs 1.3, 2.1, 5.1).
- Reflect on how your understanding of the legal implications of being responsible for the handling of personal information (CLOs 4.3, 6.1).
Content
In this unit you will explore:
- The vocabulary and key concepts of information privacy law, including security obligations.
- The sources of the laws, legal principles and regulations that apply to regulate information privacy and security in relation to digital data, particularly personal information.
- The extent to which the laws or regulations of other nations and transnational organisations affect personal information compliance obligations in Australia.
- How to locate and apply privacy and security laws, legal principles and regulations.
Learning Approaches
This unit employs case study and inquiry-based learning approaches to structure and conceptualise the unit content and to engage you in learning. The learning experiences provide you with the chance to think creatively, and produce material evidence of your preparedness for examining information privacy and security legal risks involved in organisational uses of digital data, including personal information.
The unit is taught as a fully online learning experience and is facilitated by a unit coordinator using an active and self-directed approach to learning. This approach requires you to complete online pre-workshop activities independently, prior to attending virtual design and creative problem-solving workshops conducted in online collaborative learning spaces.
Your participation in the unit will include:
- Independent engagement with online learning materials prior to participating in collaborative workshops in order to receive the most benefit from the workshop and to apply your new knowledge and skills.
- Interactive, creative problem-solving workshops that facilitate collaborative exploration of content, problem solving and skill practice in critical analysis, giving and receiving feedback, and effective communication. The interactive workshops will use technologies for both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration which will provide an authentic context for the development of your digital literacies.
- Completion of online formative activities to check your knowledge and practice your skills.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative exercises will be discussed in class.
- comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets
- generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas
- criteria sheet grading
- feedback from peers
Assessment
Overview
You will complete both formative and summative assessment in this unit. Your formative assessment will be by way of online quizzes and tests.
You will complete two summative assessment items. The first item of summative assessment will be a Problem Solving Task in which you will be required to present your analysis of the legal risks of using personal information in a particular organisational situation.
The second item of summative assessment will be a case study project that allows you to develop further a topic of interest learned on the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz
In this assessment item you will answer a combination of multiple choice and short answer questions to assess your knowledge of the legal vocabulary of information privacy and security and demonstrate your understanding of how legislation, regulation and the common law system operate to protect privacy in relation to digital data, particularly personal information.
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
Acting in an in-house legal role, you will consider a scenario involving the proposed use of personal information within an organisation. You will identify and analyse the laws and regulations that apply to the scenario.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Case Study Project
During the unit, you will be required to identify a real life case study that entails an organisational information privacy or security issue, such as a data breach, an unauthorised disclosure or an unfair collection. You will then be required to identify the key information privacy and security concerns that arise from the case study. Finally, you will be asked to reflect on the adequacy of Australian information privacy law, particularly in relation to EU developments.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
QUT Canvas site
Risk Assessment Statement
Nil