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Course Overview and Introduction
Policy Making and the Structure of Law |
Pre-writing assignment due 1 day before Lec #1 |
| Unit A: Regulating the Decentralized Internet |
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The Internet meets the U.S. Constitution |
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The Legacy of Reno: The Strengths and Limits of Filtering and User Control |
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| Unit B: Regulating Government Use of Surveillance Technology |
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Fourth Amendment Foundations and the First Century of Electronic Surveillance |
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International Issues |
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| 6 |
Technology-driven Public-private Boundary Shifts
The Crypto Wars |
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| 7 |
Profiling and Datamining Post-9/11 |
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Midterm Exam |
Project proposal due |
| Unit C: The Transparency Challenge |
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Anonymity vs. Transparency |
1-page topic description and procedure due |
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Personal Information on the Web |
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| 10 |
Transparency in Consumer Protection and Commercial Regulation |
Thesis and arguments for papers due |
| 11 |
Origins of Broadcast Regulation |
Complete paper drafts due 4 days later |
| 12 |
Semantic Web Public Policy Challenges |
Final paper due 6 days later |