LAW 7353 - Information Privacy Law

3 Credit Hours

Description
This is an elective course. This course examines laws that protect personal information, with particular focus on how the laws protecting privacy evolve with the emergence of new information technologies. The course traces the origins of the right to information privacy in American law through constitutional law, tort law, and modern statutory law. Case studies of landmark privacy legislation illustrate how expectations of privacy are translated into legal frameworks. The course looks at recent controversies involving domestic surveillance, drones, social media monitoring, and “always on” devices. The course also considers the impact of the European privacy directive, the growth of the Internet, and the availability of cryptography and other Privacy Enhancing Technologies on the future of privacy law in the United States.