AU: Information Privacy

January 14

• Warren & Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harv. L. Rev. No. 5 (1890).

January 21

No new reading.

January 26

Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace: two chapters

• What Things Regulate? and
• Privacy

January 28

Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens Report of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems, July, 1973

February 1

Privacy from Government: The Fourth Amendment, excerpting

   * Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
   * Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967)
   * Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979)
   * Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)

February 3

Privacy from Government: Wire and Electronic Communications Privacy

February 9

Location Privacy

February 11

Location Privacy, part 2

• 47 U.S.C. 222

• Review Google Latitude and one other location-based service or technology (RFID, GPS, satellite mapping, Dopplr, etc.). What privacy should we expect and demand against government use? against private use? against our own over-disclosure?

February 16

• Location redux, Chris Soghoian on Obama's Blackberry

Privacy Torts: Intrusion

February 18

Privacy Torts: Disclosure

February 23

Privacy Torts and the First Amendment

February 25

Defamation and Identification

March 18

False Light and Appropriation

March 30

Online Age Quiz Is a Window for Drug Makers, New York Times, March 26, 2009

Insurers shun those taking certain meds, Miami Herald, March 28, 2009 PDF Vista Producer Guide

Database Nation, Chapter 6, Simson Garfinkel, O'Reilly Press (2000)

April 6

Paul Schwartz, Privacy and the Economics of Personal Health Care Information, 76 Texas Law Review 1 (1997) (Blackboard links: RTF or PDF)