BUAN 5281 - Law for Business Analytics

1 credit hour
This course will examine the role and impact of data analytics and the use of business intelligence in business and society, with emphasis on legal, professional, and public policy issues. The course will be framed as a contextual examination of data analytics to facilitate learning about legal standards for private organizations using data analytics techniques in various strategic business contexts. Students will consider legal issues across the stages of the data life-cycle from collection to analysis to decision-making to review. This is a dynamic course due to the constantly evolving national and global regulatory landscape which presents a rich basis for student contemplation and discussion. Specific topics included in the course curriculum include: information privacy law such as U.S. tort law, federal statutory and administrative law and constitutional protection of civil liberties; European Union data privacy regulation; cyber-intelligence and cyber-security regulation; intellectual property rights with respect to ownership of input and output data; contractual liability, specifically with respect to thrid party reliance on data analysis; competition law and competitive intelligence.

Prerequisite Course: Business Calculus, Business Statistics, Computer Programming