Information Privacy 2006
Brooklyn Law School
Professor Wendy Seltzer, email wendy.seltzer@brooklaw.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Syllabus
Class meets Monday and alternate Wednesdays from 11:00AM-12:50PM in room 604.
(Mondays and 1/11 & 25; 2/8 & 15; 3/8 & 22; 4/19).
Website: <http://wendy.seltzer.org/brooklaw/infopriv/>, also accessible through Lexis webcourse “Information Privacy.”
Text: Solove, Rotenberg & Schwartz's Information Privacy Law (2006) (“IPL”).
Additional materials will be made available online, through the course website. Additional detail
will be added to later weeks as the course progresses. The syllabus version
posted here, <http://wendy.seltzer.org/brooklaw/infopriv/syllabus.html>, is authoritative.
1. January 11: Introduction
- IPL pp. 9-24, excerpting Warren & Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harv.
L. Rev. 193 (1890)
- Additionally, please be prepared to discuss a recent event or news item that
you feel raises information privacy concerns.
2. January 23: What is privacy? Why do we care?
- IPL pp. 1-8, Sidis
- IPL pp. 39-74, Philosophical perspectives on privacy
3. January 25: Privacy and the media: Disclosure of truthful information
- IPL pp. 102-131
- Gill v. Hearst Publ. Co.
- Daily Times Democrat v. Graham
- Miller v. Motorola, Inc.
- Sipple v. Chronicle Publ. Co.
- Shulman v. Group W. Prod'ns, Inc.
Please make sure you have signed up for the online discussion here at H2O.
4. January 30: Media: Disclosure of truthful information, appropriation
- IPL pp. 131-152: Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn; Florida Star
v. B.J.F.
-IPL pp. 189-206: Carson v. Here's Johnny Portable Toilets,
Inc.; Finger v. Omni Publications Int'l, Ltd.; Zacchini
v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.
5. February 6: Media: Dissemination of false or misleading information; illegally obtained information
- IPL pp. 159-188: N.Y. Times v. Sullivan; Gertz v. Robert Welch,
Inc.; Zeran v. America Online, Inc.; Blumenthal v. Drudge
- Time
Inc. v. Hill; Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
- IPL pp. 152-157, Bartnicki v. Vopper
6. February 8: Privacy and law enforcement: Fourth Amendment and responses to changing technology
- IPL pp. 207-232: United States v. Olmstead; United States v. Lopez; United States v. Katz; White v. United States
7. February 13: Privacy and law enforcement: Reasonable expectations of privacy
- IPL pp. 232-263: Smith v. Maryland; United States v. Place; Illinois v. Caballes; California v. Greenwood; Florida v. Riley; Dow Chemical v. United States; Kyllo v. United States
8. February 15: Federal surveillance law
- IPL pp. 263-285, structure of federal surveillance law: Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA); Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service
9. February 21: Federal surveillance law (2)
- IPL pp. 285-300, structure of federal surveillance law, continued: CALEA, FISA, USA PATRIOT Act
- Doe v. Gonzales, 334 F. Supp. 2d 471 (S.D.N.Y. 2004) http://wendy.seltzer.org/brooklaw/infopriv/Doe_v_Gonzales.html
- In re Application for Pen Register
and Trap/Trace Device with Cell Site Location Authority, H-05-557M
S.D. Tex., Oct. 14, 2005 http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/USA_v_PenRegister/Cell-Site-Opinion.pdf
10. February 27: National security
- IPL pp. 300-320: In re Sealed Case (FISA Court of Review)
- CAPPS II, <http://www.boycottdelta.org/> and <http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/student-papers/spring02-papers/caps.htm>
11. March 6: Encryption and responses to it
- IPL pp. 320-323; 339-345: United States v. Scarfo
- Bernstein v. United States Department of Justice, 176 F.3d 1132 (9th Cir. 1999)
12. March 8: Anonymity
- IPL pp. 470-480, 490-498: Talley v. California; McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission; Watchtower Bible & Tract Soc'y v. Village of Stratton; Tattered Cover v. City of Thornton
[Spring Break]
13. March 20: Anonymity online
- recall Zeran and Blumenthal v. Drudge
- IPL pp. 481-490; 498-504: ACLU v. Miller; Columbia Ins. Co. v. SeesCandy.com; Doe v. 2TheMart.com; RIAA v. Verizon
- Blogging anonymously from EFF, <http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php>, and Reporters Without Borders, <http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15012>
14. March 22: Privacy and commerce
- IPL pp. 623-649, collecting information
- Dwyer v. American Express; Remsburg v. Docusearch
March 27: NO CLASS. Readings moved to April 3.
16. April 3 Privacy and commerce (2)
- IPL pp. 649-673, regulating information use
- In re Pharmatrak; Dyer v. Northwest Airlines; Chance v. Avenue A; Dirkes v. Borough of Runnemede
17. April 10: Online privacy
- IPL pp. 739-765
- In re Northwest Airlines; In re GeoCities; In re Toysmart.com
- The privacy policy: Find and read the privacy policy for a website you
visit frequently
-Browse the TRUSTe website, <http://www.truste.org/>
- Jeri Clausing, Privacy Watchdog Declines to Pursue Microsoft, a Backer, N.Y. Times, March
22, 1999, <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/cyber/articles/23privacy.html>
- Joseph Reagle and Lorrie Faith Cranor, The Platform for Privacy Preferences, <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-P3P-CACM/>
18. April 17: Applying it all: Privacy and government records
- IPL pp. 525-579
- FOIA; DOJ v. Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press; National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish; LAPD v. United Reporting Publishing Corp.;
Paul P. v. Verniero
19. April 19: International privacy regimes; cross-border data flows
- IPL pp. 871-878; 900-922; 936-948
- EU Privacy Directive; U.S. Safe harbor; Durant v. Financial Services Authority; Criminal Proceedings against Bodil Lindqvist
20. April 24: Open session
- Google's Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy, The Nation, March 24, 2006
- States rush to remove data on residents from websites, USA Today, April 23, 2006
Last updated: 4/06