Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	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
2	The Internet meets the U.S. Constitution
3	The Legacy of Reno: The Strengths and Limits of Filtering and User Control
Unit B: Regulating Government Use of Surveillance Technology
4	Fourth Amendment Foundations and the First Century of Electronic Surveillance
5	International Issues
6	Technology-driven Public-private Boundary Shifts The Crypto Wars
7	Profiling and Datamining Post-9/11
	Midterm Exam	Project proposal due
Unit C: The Transparency Challenge
8	Anonymity vs. Transparency	1-page topic description and procedure due
9	Personal Information on the Web
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