76089 Privacy and Surveillance Law
6cpRequisite(s): 70616 Australian Constitutional Law
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Anti-requisite(s): 78248 Privacy and Surveillance: Law and Policy AND 78249 Privacy and Surveillance: Law and Policy
Description
Issues surrounding privacy and surveillance are attracting increasing attention in contemporary public debate, fuelled, in no small way, by the emergence of new technologies. They are multi-faceted, controversial and challenging. This subject explores key legal and policy questions relating to invasion of personal privacy, data protection and retention, and surveillance of personal conversations, activities and location. It also tackles emerging issues and challenges prompted, in particular, by the advent of new technologies, including online privacy protection, anonymity/pseudonymity and the right to be forgotten. This necessitates travelling through disrupted legal terrain, formed by a complex mix of common law and statute, federal as well as state/territory laws. It also requires students to engage with a range of perspectives, ideas and interests. Understanding of key issues is further deepened by interrogating the wider contexts in which privacy and surveillance law operates and is informed, including theoretical, constitutional, policy and international settings. Students are also asked to critically evaluate a range of responses to privacy and surveillance issues including law reform proposals.
Detailed subject description.
Fee information
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- Subject EFTSL: 0.125
Access conditions
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