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Lecturer(s)
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Čtvrtník Mikuláš, doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course in the face-to-face form includes the following topics by week: 1. Introduction to the issue of access to public documents, archives and information. 2. GDPR - the European General Data Protection Regulation. The impact of the GDPR on the protection of personal data in archives. 3. Czech legislation on the processing of personal data at a general level and specific levels of personal data processing in archives and document management. 4. Protection of personality, protected interests of persons in archives: comparison of foreign regulations and specific models and comparison with the situation in the Czech Republic. 5. Public versus private interest. Testing the proportionality of private and public interest in learning about the past in the practice of foreign and Czech archives and document management. 6. The right to be forgotten versus the right to memory in relation to the information needs of contemporary society, data inflation and risks of data misuse. 7. Anonymization, pseudonymization and other tools for applying the principle of data minimization in documents and archives. 8. Protection periods for access to public documents and archives. Comparative-historical overview of their development and current form in foreign and Czech document management, records service and archival science. 9. Documents in classified regime. 10. Public versus private documents. Public right to access documents. Foreign examples and Czech practice.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course introduces students to the specific area of access to information, public documents and archives as one of the very important and currently highly topical issues both at the level of public administration and specifically in the field of document management and archival science. The development of the information society has brought in recent decades a whole spectrum of questions and the search for answers in the form of regulation of conflicting civil rights - the right to freedom of research, the right to information from the activities of state institutions and, on the other hand, the right of citizens to informational self-determination or protection of personality. Archives, which primarily store documents originating from the activities of state institutions, must make a complex assessment of conflicts between the legitimate protection of private and public interests. Moreover, this conflict is reflected in the entire life cycle of the document and increases the demands on the preservation of information by the originators, its acquisition, processing and making it available to the public.
The student will gain a detailed overview of the issues of access to archives, documents and information, especially of public origin. He will be able to orient himself in the relationship between the right to information and, on the other hand, the citizen's right to protection of personality. The student will gain competences for applying the issues of access to archives and documents in the specific practice of archives and document management.
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
During the semester, an individual paper or seminar paper, and at the end of the semester, a final oral exam covering the entire lecture material and individual study of literature.
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Recommended literature
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Charles Kecskeméti, Iván Székely. Access to Archives. Strasbourg, 2005.
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Martin Valoušek et al. Ochrana osobnosti, soukromí a osobních údajů. Praha, 2019.
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Mikuláš Čtvrtník. Ochranné archivní lhůty a přístup k veřejným dokumentům a archiváliím. Komparativně-historická analýza. Archivní časopis 69, 2019, č. 4, s. 341-370, 2019.
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Mikuláš Čtvrtník. Právo být (ne)zapomenut. Výmazy dějin, inflace historických pramenů, ochrana soukromí, vy(zne)užívání dat a prekérní situace archivů v mladém 21. století ? podněty k diskusi. Archivní časopis 68, 2018, č. 3, s. 266-297, 2018.
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Mikuláš Čtvrtník. Právo veřejnosti na dokumenty v USA a Francii. Soudobé historické prameny a proměna role veřejných archivů ve 21. století,. Český časopis historický 115, 2017, č. 4, s. 959?982, 2017.
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