Legal Issues of Informatics and e-Business

Objectives:

The lesson aims to deal with important legal issues related to the use of Information Technology with emphasis in the regulatory framework of the Internet. It concerns the e-processing of personal data in business and communications, the protection of privacy in social networks, the intellectual rights,  the e-crime, the specific protection of minors using the internet, as well as the legal framework of e-commerce.

Skills:

The students are familiarized with the rights and obligations of the internet user and the issues of compliance to the legal rules governing the use of the I.T. and the Internet, in various sectors.

Prerequisites:

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Content:

• Introduction to the I.T. Law and its various issues
• Electronic Processing of Personal Data: Legal rules of the processing, the obligations of the data controller  and  the rights of the data subject
• E-processing of personal  data in business (customers, consumers, employees) with emphasis in banking
• Legal framework of electronic communications
• E-communication’s confidentiality (telecommunications-Internet) and its legal protection
• Use of new technologies and privacy legal protection. The example of  the  Radiofrequency Identification (RFID)
• Monitoring  (e-Surveillance) and Privacy
• Copyright and Information Technology/ Software Legal Protection
• Intellectual property rights in the Internet
• E-crime and relative legal regulation
• Legal protection of  minors using the Internet
• Legal framework of e-commerce

Textbooks:

Alexandropoulou, E., Personal data, ed. NOMIKI BIBLIOTHIKI, Athens 2016

Alexandropoulou, E., Copyright and Information Technology, ed. Themis-N.A. Sakkoula, Athens 2012 (in greek)

Christodoulou, K., Personal Data Law, ed. Nomiki Bibliothiki, Athens -Thessaloniki 2013 (in greek)

Iglezakis,I., Law of the Information Technology, ed. Sakkoula, Thessaloniki-Athens 2013

Karakostas, I., Law and Internet, 3^rd ed., ed. P.N.Sakkoula, Athens 2009 (in greek)

Sidiropoulos, Th., The Law of the Internet, 2^nd ed., ed. Sakkoula, Thessaloniki 2008

(in greek)

Reed Chr., Internet Law, 2^nd ed., Cambridge University Press 2004

Lucas, Α., Devèze, J., Frayssinet, J., Droit de l’ Informatique et de l’ Internet, P.U.F., Paris 2001

Dudley,A.-Braman,J.-Vincenti,G. Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices, Towson University, USA, IGI 2012.

www.itlaw.uom.gr

www.ethemis.gr

www.tiresias.gr

Assessment:

Written final exams 50%.
E-Presentation of a short-essay 50%.

Webpage:

http://compus.uom.gr/MINF171/