Program Overview

Program Overview

The College of Law and International Relations offers a course titled LAW 435: Internet and Cybersecurity Law. This course focuses on computer technology and the law, with a particular emphasis on transborder data flow and the ways in which legislatures around the world are working to protect against computer-related crimes.

Course Details

• Credits: 3
• Focus: The course is centered on studying Saudi Arabia's relevant laws and regulations against a comparative background survey of legal protection in other countries.
• Scope: The scope of data protection is explored, including the sectoral nature of the data to be protected and the varying degree of protection allocated to different areas such as government databases, energy, financial markets, children, medicine, industrial sector, biological research, and intellectual property.

Prerequisite Courses

• LAW 336: Economic Crimes
• LAW 338: Evidence Law

Institution

The course is offered by Alfaisal University, located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.