1. Context and background of european data protection law. 1.1 The right to data protection. 1.2. Balancing rights 2. Data protection terminology. 2.1. Personal data. 2.2. Data processing. 2.3. The users of personal data. 2.4. Consent. 3. The key principles of european data protection law. 3.1. The principle of lawful processing. 3.2 The principle of purpose specification and limitation. 3.3. Data quality principles. 3.4. The fair processing principle. 3.5. The principle of accountability. 4. The rules of european data protection law. 4.1. Rules on lawful processing. 4.2. Rules on security of processing. 4.3 Ruçes on transparecy of processong. 4.4 Rules on promoting compliance. 5. The data subject's rights and their enforcement. 5.1 The rights of data subjects. 5.2 Independent supervision. 5.3 Remedies and sanctions. 6. Transborder data flows. 6.1 Nature of transborder data flows. 6.2 Free data flows between member states or between contracting parties. 6.3 Free data flows to third countries. 6.4 Restricted data flows to third countries. 7. Data protection in the context of police and criminal justice. 7.1 CoE law on data protection in police and criminal justice matters. 7.2 EU law on data proetction in police and criminal matters. 8. Other specific european data protection laws. 8.1 Electronic communications. 8.2 Employment data. 8.3 Medical data. 8.4 Data processing for statistical purposes. 8.5 Financial data.