📘 Course Curriculum: Data – Law, Policy, and Regulation
🧾 What You Will Learn
- Analyze GDPR, CCPA, DPDP India, and other global privacy laws
- Evaluate algorithms through legal and policy lenses
- Understand AI accountability, governance, and liability models
- Explore economic theories of data ownership and market regulation
- Design and lead ethical data programs in public and private sectors
📦 Module 1: Legal Foundations of Data Regulation
- The evolution of data as a legal and economic asset
- Models of regulation: command, co-regulation, hybrid approaches
- Core legal principles: consent, accountability, data minimization
- GDPR, CCPA, DPDP India – Comparative framework analysis
- Interactive Workshop: Mapping global data rights to local law
🌍 Module 2: Comparative Global Frameworks
- Detailed analysis of GDPR enforcement mechanisms
- India’s DPDP Act – How it compares globally
- Sector-specific regulation in healthcare, finance, and telecom
- Legal structures for data localization and cross-border transfers
- Toolkit: Global regulation matrix: US, EU, APAC, India
🤖 Module 3: Law of Algorithms & Automated Decision-Making
- Accountability frameworks for algorithmic decision-making
- Classification systems from the EU AI Act and OECD
- Transparency, bias, and fairness mandates in code
- Case law and policy responses to algorithmic harms
- Assignment: Develop a fairness impact memo
💸 Module 4: Data Policy, Economics & Platform Power
- Legal theory: Data as capital, labor, or commons
- Antitrust and platform power in the data economy
- Mandated data sharing and institutional trust frameworks
- Balancing intellectual property with open data principles
- Debate Lab: Framing rights vs utility in data policy
⚖️ Module 5: Ethics, Surveillance & State Responsibility
- Global surveillance laws: US, India, China, UK approaches
- Smart infrastructure: cities, policing, and predictive tech
- Human rights implications: dignity, autonomy, profiling
- Constructing ethical checklists for system designers
- Case Study: Aarogya Setu and India’s proportionality doctrine
📜 Module 6: Capstone Design Studio
- Capstone Project: Write a policy proposal for data regulation reform
- Collaborate via peer reviews and structured live sessions
- Receive expert mentorship on strategy and legal clarity
- Earn your certificate and digital credential on submission