Information Law Project:

Research Collaboration with Dr Bostjan Bercic of the Institute for Economics, Legal and Informatics (Slovenia)

(a) Investigating the application of database theory to data protection

The aims of this research work are to:

(1) Investigate whether database design theory can be applied to identifying personal data.
(2) Develop a suitable decision algorithm to identify personal data using database theory.
(3) Develop a decision support intelligent system to implement the decision algorithm.

(b) Investigating issues related to the collection & processing of data in the provision of medical services

The aims of this research work in relation to medical-related data are to:

(1) Investigate industry practices relating to data collection, processing & protection.
(2) Investigate the associate legal issues raised as as result of such practices.

(c) Investigating the mapping of legal notions from information law to their underlying intangible semantic forms.

This work aims to map legal notions from information law (e.g. personal data, defamation etc.) to their underlying semantic forms (notions from areas of information science and knowledge management) to gain insights into the connection between law and information science / knowledge management.