6.805 | Fall 2005 | Undergraduate

Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier

Assignments

This section provides an overview of the assignments for each week, including readings to be completed before the lecture sessions.

ASSIGNMENTS TOPICS
Assignment 1 Pre-Semester Writing Assignment
Assignment 2 The Internet meets the U.S. Constitution
Assignment 3 Filters
Assignment 4 Fourth Amendment Foundations and the First Century of Electronic Surveillance
Assignment 5 International Issues
Assignment 6 Cryptography
Assignment 7 Profiling and Data Mining
Assignment 8 Transparency
Assignment 9 Personal Information on the Web
Assignment 10 Transparency in Consumer Protection and Commercial Regulation
Assignment 11 How Metaphor becomes Law: The Origins of Broadcast Regulation

Weekly Writing Rotisserie (PDF)