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LSE: Data: Law, Policy and Regulation

Gain the skills to critically analyze and navigate the changing legal environment that’s shaping data law and policy.

Gain the skills to critically analyze and navigate the changing legal environment that’s shaping data law and policy.

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This course is offered by , an edX partner
6 weeks
8–10 hours per week
Starts May 1, 2024
Enroll by May 7, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
6 weeks
8–10 hours per week
Starts May 1, 2024
Enroll by May 7, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Rapid digitization and questions of data privacy have led to the development of data protection laws across the globe, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Designed to modernize laws that protect the personal information of individuals, these new data regulations impact how businesses and public sector organizations should handle customer and stakeholder information. The Data: Law, Policy and Regulation online certificate course from LSE explores the role of law in the digital space by contextualizing legal principles and concepts related to data and technology regulation. Ultimately, it empowers learners with the skills to navigate the changing legal environment shaping data law and policy.

Through a socio-legal lens, you’ll engage critically with topical case studies and current data regulations, and gain insight into the legal challenges posed by digitization. Developed by leading academics from LSE’s Law School, the content draws on the strengths of the school’s innovative research and academic excellence to immerse you in pressing legal debates in data protection and algorithmic regulation. By the end of this online course, you’ll have gained the skills to think critically about the relationship between technology, policy, and the law. You’ll also walk away with a better understanding of the issues of digital data ownership and exploitation.

This course is aimed at professionals looking to explore the global data protection concerns driving new internet and technology regulations. It’s designed to be open and applicable to people from various geographical or jurisdictional contexts eager to understand the core legal concepts and debates around data law and regulation, as well as data-driven decision-making. Offering practical applications for both legal and business professionals, this course is relevant to business leaders, data analysts, and information technologists looking to gain expert perspectives on this current and critical issue. For legal consultants, public policy specialists, and law graduates, the course offers the opportunity to grow your knowledge in tech-driven policymaking, data privacy and protection, and data regulation issues.

Course curriculum

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Study the key principles underlying a new legal regime for data ownership as you work through the weekly modules of this online certificate course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Section I : Datafication and the law

Module 1: Digitization and its challenges for regulation

Module 2: Data as an asset, data as a right

Section II: Regulation of and by algorithms

Module 3: Algorithmic regulation

Module 4: Algorithmic profiling under the GDPR

Section III: Rethinking data governance

Module 5: Property rights in data

Module 6: Dominance and data

About the certificate

Examine the function of law in the digital realm and earn an official certificate of competence from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

53%

The percentage of consumers who will only purchase from companies that have a reputation of protecting their customers’ data.

McKinsey & Company (2022).

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$75.88 billion

The expected size of data protection as a service market by 2028.

Mordor Intelligence LLP (Feb, 2024).

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