HELP course on Data Protection and Privacy Rights

This HELP course on Data Protection and Privacy Rights is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP), with EU financial support, aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. The course aims at providing a comprehensive curriculum, which covers in an interactive way the key concepts, the legal framework of the CoE and the EU (directly applicable at national level), the case-law or the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and specific areas of data protection. One of the key reference materials to develop this course has been the Handbook on Data Protection developed jointly by the EU FRA and the CoE together with the Registry of the ECtHR. Existing case-law on data protection and privacy rights will be explored, covering topics such as medical sector, media (traditional and  non-traditional), development of new technologies (i.e. GPS, drones, CCTV), e-communication and marketing, and workplace surveillance. It is primarily addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers, senior court staff). The course consists of the following 10 substantive modules: Legal framework (privacy vs. data protection) Key concepts Key principles Health data Data Protection and Media E-communications & marketing New technologies Data protection in the workplace Administrative, criminal and civil remedies International data flows. The course has been developed by the EU funded project "HELP in the 28" in close cooperation with the Council of Europe Data Protection Unit. If you are interested in this course or another, you simply need to register in order to access the website resources. An explanatory document is available to make it easier for new persons to find their way around the site. To access the course, firstly you need to open yourself an account at HELP website. Once logged in to the HELP platform you can click here to access the course directly.