LAW 877 Information Privacy
This course focuses on the challenges of protecting information privacy against the threat of emerging technologies (such as biotechnologies, internet communication technologies, information tracking technologies, cloud computing, biometrics, and surveillance technologies to name a few). Information has been central to the form and function of the knowledge economy and plays a vital role as between individuals and in relationship with the state, raising issues related to control, access, aggregation, storage, retrieval, use, retention, deletion, and dissemination. Privacy in private and public spaces has long been an area for legal debate. In an era when data collection and data trails have become ubiquitous, however, new technologies operationally interrogate existing dominant conceptions of privacy and introduce fresh areas for legal contestation that question the need for a coherent theoretical framework. This course will survey the mixed regulatory mechanisms available for protecting privacy in Canadian law, ranging from constitutional to statutory, common law and criminal protections, and will examine how normative conceptual understandings of privacy, and attendant perceptions of any necessary trade-offs, mediate new technologies, civil liberties, democratic values, public policy, law and reform efforts. Whether there is a normative moral claim for protecting privacy beyond our reasonable expectation becomes a critically pressing concern if we are to accept the idea that we live in a surveillance society. The course asks the questions of protection of what (what counts as personal information) from whom (are there differences to be drawn between the private and public holders and uses of such information), how (from collection, use, and disclosure), and the implications that such inquiries may have on forms of consent and fair information practices, in order to debate the regulatory and legal responses that may be necessary and why. Cross listed with LAW 617.
Law
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/programs-study/law/
The graduate law program at Queen’s University offers to students from Canada and from countries around the world an intellectually rich and challenging environment for legal learning and scholarship. Queen’s offers two graduate degrees in law:
Law (LAW)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/law/
LL.M. and Ph.D. students must enroll in LAW 880 Legal Research Methods and Perspectives and LAW 881 Graduate Adv. Legal Research in their first year of studies.
Industrial Relations
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/programs-study/industrial-relations/
...the fundamentals of the laws governing the individual...0 credit units.) M1R 877 Technology and Work...
Industrial Relations (MIR)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/mir/
...820 IR and Labour Law (two terms) This...0 credit units.) M1R 877 Technology and Work...
Accelerated MBA
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/business/accelerated-mba/
...financial analysis theory. MBUS 877 Managing Under Fire...may be subject to laws and regulations such...
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
History
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/programs-study/history/
...natural law and natural rights; international law; theories...fall. A. English. HIST 877 History, Memory, Commemoration...
Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MECH)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/mech/
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
History (HIST)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/hist/
...natural law and natural rights; international law; theories...fall. A. English. HIST 877 History, Memory, Commemoration...
Electrical and Computer Engineering
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...their graduate degree. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Electrical Engineering (ELEC)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/elec/
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...their graduate degree. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Rehabilitation Science
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/programs-study/rehabilitation-science/
...humanities, nursing, education, epidemiology, law, engineering and others...for availability. EXCLUSIONS: RHBS 877, RHBS 977 RHBS...
Mining Engineering
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/programs-study/mining-engineering/
...Reporting and Metrics, Mining Law and Policy, Community...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Mathematics and Statistics
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/programs-study/mathematics-statistics/
...and deformation, and balance laws with constitutive models...474, MTHE 474 MATH 877 Data Compression and...
Civil Engineering
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/programs-study/civil-engineering/
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Chemical Engineering
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/programs-study/chemical-engineering/
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Civil Engineering (CIVL)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/civl/
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Chemical Engineering (CHEE)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/chee/
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Mathematics and Statistics (MATH)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/math/
...and deformation, and balance laws with constitutive models...474, MTHE 474 MATH 877 Data Compression and...
Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Mining Engineering (MINE)
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/mine/
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...
Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
https://www.queensu.ca/academic-calendar/graduate-studies/courses-instruction/geol/
...self-driving vehicles, healthcare, law and defense. The...Pass/Fail basis. APSC 877 Engineering Project Management...