DSM8520 Compliance Law and Ethics
Increasingly, the legal and regulatory regimes governing the creation, maintenance and access to records are affected by international developments and trends as the marketplace becomes seamlessly global. Even organisations limiting their activities to the UK are feeling the effects of wider legal requirements. The information professional should be able to facilitate compliance, transparency and accountability of the organisation in terms of the information they create, manage, and destroy. This course examines the impact of legal, regulatory and audit frameworks (e.g. GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation, and Freedom of information) on recordkeeping practices, the mechanisms open to organisations to ensure they comply with the relevant frameworks, and the ethical code within which information professionals should operate.
The course covers the following areas of expertise:
- Tends and context in information management and records governance
- Compliance: sector perspectives
- Law: international and UK perspectives
- Law: Freedom of Information and Data Protection
- Business ethics: issues for information professionals
- Challenges in information compliance law and ethics