Privacy

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Wednesday, 4:00-5:30pm
Format: Lecture, featuring guest respondents
Leads: Phil Malone, featuring Herbert Burkert and John Palfrey
Participants: Urs Gasser, Charlie Nesson, and others

This pillar topic, led by Phil Malone and featuring Herbert Burkert and John Palfrey, 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, and Charlie Nesson will add their perspectives on these issues throughout this session.

Required Readings

Overview

Behavioral Targeting/Do Not Track

Right to Be Forgotten

Location Privacy

Google Street View

Google Buzz

Recommended Readings

Privacy and Technological Points of Control

Privacy and Reputation

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