6.806
Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier
Fall 2005
Topics
- Course Overview and Introduction
- The Internet meets the U.S. Constitution
- The Legacy of Reno : The Strengths and Limits of Filtering and User Control
- Fourth Amendment Foundations and the First Century of Electronic Surveillance
- International Issues
- Technology-driven Public-private Boundary Shifts
- Profiling and Datamining Post-9/11
- Anonymity vs. Transparency
- Personal Information on the Web
- Transparency in Consumer Protection and Commercial Regulation
- Origins of Broadcast Regulation
- Semantic Web Public Policy Challenges
Readings
- Brin, David. The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? New York, NY: Perseus Books, 1999. ISBN: 0738201448.
- O’Harrow, Robert. No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society . New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2005. ISBN: 0743254805.
- Brin, David. The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? New York, NY: Perseus Books, 1999. ISBN: 0738201448.
- O’Harrow, Robert. No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society . New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2005. ISBN: 0743254805.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.