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April 25

Privacy and Civil Liberties


 

WEEK 11 - FRIDAY, APRIL 25

Session I
Privacy and Civil Liberties
Personalization in marketing vs. the desire to protect personal data and information, struggles over censorship and regulation in the new media environment, technologies of freedom or surveillance, data-mining....

" David Brin, "The Transparent Society," Wired, December 1996
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent.html
" Simson Garfinkel, "Buy Now!," Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (Cambridge: O'Reilly, 2000)
" "Reality Intrudes on the Internet" Computerworld, September 2001
" "You Be The Judge", InformationWeek, August 2001
" "Area Lawmakers Again Targeting Telemarketers", Wash. Post, January 2003 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15253-2003Jan19.html

Session II
Guest Speaker: Ira Glasser is the former President of the American Civil Liberties Union.