Privacy
Overview
Wednesday, 4:00-5:30pm
Format: Lecture, featuring guest respondents
Lead: John Palfrey, featuring Herbert Burkert
Participants: Urs Gasser, Phil Malone, Charlie Nesson, and others
This pillar topic, led by John Palfrey and featuring Herbert Burkert, will cover a mixture of privacy history, theory, black letter law, regulatory developments and current controversies. Herbert Burkert will offer a multinational perspective of privacy law and policy, outlining the emergence of data protection law in Europe. Against this backdrop, recent global privacy developments, comparative EU vs. US approaches and current online controversies – including behavioral targeting, persistent cookies and Do Not Track legislation; the right to be forgotten/ le droit à l’oubli; location privacy; facial recognition; contextual privacy; Google’s Street View service, and Google’s Buzz rollout – will be explored to gain a deeper understanding of the current the state of privacy law and norms and possible ways forward. Participants Urs Gasser, Phil Malone, and Charlie Nesson will add their perspectives on these issues throughout this session.
Required Readings
Hyperpublic Media
- Hyperpublic Blog
- Hyperpublic Symposium 2011: Introduction (video)
- John Palfrey on Legal Design for Delineating Public and Private (video)
Privacy and Technological Points of Control
- Jonathan Zittrain, "Internet Points of Control"
Privacy and Reputation
- Jonathan Zittrain, "Strategies for a Generative Future," The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It, (New Haven: Yale University Press) 2008.
- Daniel J. Solove, "Conclusion: The Future of Reputation," The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, (New Haven: Yale University Press) 2007.
- Motion in the AutoAdmit Case
Recommended Readings
Privacy and Technological Points of Control
- John Borland, “Supreme Court rules against file swapping”, June 2005
- Dan Goodin “Microsoft unveils 'do not track' option for IE9”, December 7 2010
Privacy and Reputation
- Craig Newmark, "Trust and reputation systems: redistributing power and influence, April 6, 2010
- Evlyn Rusli, "Unvarnished Becomes Honestly.com, Raises $1.2 Million And Opens The Floodgates", October 19, 2010
- Wikipedia Entry on the Seigenthaler Incident