This course is part of the Privacy and Standardisation Specialization

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Privacy and Standardisation SpecializationEIT Digital

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Welcome to this course about privacy, 
We are thrilled to see that you are interested and will provide you with a comprehensive study of this intriguiging subject. We hope this course will enthuse you to look further into privacy and personal data regulation. Especially in the light of recent events it becomes more important to know about your (alleged!?) rights and freedoms. 

After showing you a number of interesting examples of privacy in recent events, this course continues to provide you with an historic introduction, and varying cases and court decisions. It will guide you through the cultural and legal changes in perception of privacy over time. Sometimes with a more technological perspective. Notably, in the Western world differences have accumulated over time and the differences between the USA and Europe will be explained extensively in the follow-up courses. 

Through video lectures and quizzes we endeavor to build a solid foundation for you to construct a well-founded opinion on privacy. Last but not least we sincerely hope you enjoy the course! 

Prof.mr.dr. Jan Smits

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What you will learn

Develop a clear concept of personal space and privacy in the context of history and international cooperation

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Course 1 of 5 in the

Privacy and Standardisation Specialization

Beginner Level

Approx. 7 hours to complete

English

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Jan Smits

emer. Full Professor, LL.M.

Innovation Engineering and Information Systems

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EIT Digital

EIT Digital is a European education and innovation organisation with a mission to foster digital technology innovation and entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life. By linking education, research, and business, EIT Digital empowers digital top talent for the future.

EIT Digital provides online and face-to-face Innovation and Entrepreneurship education to raise quality, increase diversity and availability of the top-level content provided by 20 leading technical universities around Europe. The universities deliver a unique blend of the best of technical excellence and entrepreneurial skills and mindset to digital engineers and entrepreneurs at all stages of their careers. The academic partners support Coursera’s bold vision to enable anyone, anywhere, to transform their lives by accessing the world’s best learning experience. This means that EIT Digital gradually shares parts of its entrepreneurial and academic education programmes to demonstrate its excellence and make it accessible to a much wider audience. EIT Digital’s online education portfolio can be used as part of blended education settings, in both Master's and Doctorate programmes, and for professionals as a way to update their knowledge.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Introduction

This is the introduction to the course on Privacy. This first week we start with a number of introduction videos to demonstrate the importance of privacy in examples from all over the world. It is interesting to see how privacy has been put under pressure because of increased security, of freedom of enterprise of social media, and of technological possibilities. After this weeks lesson's we dive deeper in history to see where privacy legislation is coming from, how it relates to human rights, and the recent developments to its current status. We hope you enjoy this course.

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 26 min), 1 reading

Week2

Week 2

1 hour to complete

A Historic perspective

1 hour to complete

2 videos (Total 3 min)

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Expert view

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 68 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week4

Week 4

1 hour to complete

History communality

1 hour to complete

4 videos (Total 5 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

Week5

Week 5

1 hour to complete

19th century specialized international treaties

1 hour to complete

6 videos (Total 5 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week6

Week 6

1 hour to complete

International Cooperation and Human Rights

After agreeing on specific subjects countries learned that in order to avoid conflict more safeguards and cooperation was required. The two world wars showed that absence of good arbitration over conflicts and lacking international cohesiveness could lead to humanic atrocities. This module focuses on the response the world made to avoid these events from ever happening again: to protect human live and to protect human rights.

1 hour to complete

5 videos (Total 7 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week7

Week 7

2 hours to complete

Last three decades

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 5 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

Week8

Week 8

20 minutes to complete

Examination

20 minutes to complete

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TOP REVIEWS FROM PRIVACY IN THE WESTERN WORLD

by JYMar 10, 2021

This was a well thought out introduction to the 'how and the why' privacy laws have evolved.

by MSMay 23, 2020

I just love the course very much informative and easy to understand.

by SPSep 13, 2022

One of the best course which takes you to the world where the human civilisation started and combines the privacy from ancient empires and connects its roots to the present modern world.

by ACAug 14, 2020

Through this course i understood different things from which the digital experts are dealing with.

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About the Privacy and Standardisation Specialization

Welcome to this specialization about privacy and standardisation,

We are thrilled to see that you are interested and will provide you with a comprehensive study of the intriguiging subject of privacy and standardisation in the context of technological innovation. We hope this course will enthuse you to look further into privacy, personal data regulation and standardisation. Especially in the light of recent events it becomes more important to know about your (alleged!?) rights and freedoms. The courses on privacy provide you with a historical perspective on the developments of privacy rights in an international context. The course on standardisation shows you the legal context and the scalable power of standardisation. Both topics are presented in a technological context. The course on Privacy in the Western World provides you with the differences between the USA and Europe, and the details of Europe and USA will be explained extensively in the follow-up courses. The specialization will help you build a comprehensive opinion and it will challenge you in all areas of present-day privacy protection. It will link historic milestones to current limitations and offer you a journey through jurisdictions and technological fields alike. Through video lectures and quizzes we endeavor to build a solid foundation for you to construct a well-founded opinion on privacy and standardisation. Last but not least we sincerely hope you enjoy the course! Prof.mr.dr. Jan Smits

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