Syllabus
8/26 & 9/2. Technology as Policy
SKIM THESE TWO (we discussed much in class last week)
Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? (Winter, 1980), pp. 121-136 The MIT Press on behalf of American Academy of Arts & Sciences, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652
Lessig, Larry, Code, chapter 7 ("What Things Regulate") http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi?what_things_regulate
READ THIS
Surden, Harry,Structural Rights in Privacy. SMU Law Review, Vol. 60, pp. 1605-1629, 2007. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1004675
9/9. Policy Making and Delegation
M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum, "Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice," In Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 download here, log in with ischool username and password Read pp. 322-329
H. Nissenbaum, "Privacy as Contextual Integrity," Washington Law Review Vol 79, No. 1, February 2004: 119-158. download here, log in with ischool username and password INTRODUCTION AND SECTIONs III and IV (p 136-158)
Clark, D. D., Wroclawski, J., Sollins, K. R., and Braden, R. 2002. Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow's internet. In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols For Computer Communications (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, August 19 - 23, 2002). SIGCOMM '02. ACM, New York, NY, 347-356. download here, log in with ischool username and password
ASSIGNMENT: 2-4 page reflection on the first two sets of readings, DUE 9/16
9/16. Identifying policy-making technology
Lorrie Faith Cranor & Joseph Reagle, Jr., Designing a Social Protocol: Lessons Learned from the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/dsp/dsp.html
John Morris and Alan Davidson, Public Policy Considerations for Internet Design Decisions http://www.cdt.org/standards/draft-morris-policy-considerations-00.pdf
M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum, "Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice," In Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 download here, log in with ischool username and password Read what you didn't last week
9/23. Identifying policy-making technology
Guest Lecturer: John Morris, General Counsel; Director, Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project, Center for Democracy & Technology
Skim http://www.cdt.org/standards/
Additional reading TBA
ASSIGNMENT: 2-4 page reflection on readings from 9/9, 9/16 and/or 9/23 lecture, DUE 10/7
9/30. Problems of Identification Court records
Refresh:
Surden, Harry,Structural Rights in Privacy. SMU Law Review, Vol. 60, pp. 1605-1629, 2007. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1004675
Read:
Winn, P., "Judicial Information Management in an Electronic Age: Old Standards, New Challenges," (July 24, 2009). Federal Courts Law Review, Forthcoming. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1438674
10/7. Problems of Identification and expertise RFID Documents
Data Quality Act download here, log in with ischool username and password
Meingast, M., King, J., Mulligan, D., "Embedded RFID and Everyday Things: A Case Study of the Security and Privacy Risks of the U.S. e-Passport," IEEE International Conference on RFID, March, 2007. http://www.truststc.org/pubs/157/Meingast_King_Mulligan_RFID2007_Final.pdf
ASSIGNMENT: 2-4 page reflection on readings from 9/30 and 10/7, DUE 10/21
10/14, Legal Barriers to Oversight
Hall J.L., "Contractual Barriers to Transparency in Electronic Voting," In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT'07), 2007. http://accurate-voting.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/evt07-hall.pdf
"Legal issues facing election officials in an Electronic-voting world," Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic University of California-Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/samuelsonclinic/files/Legal_Issues_Facing_Election_Officials.pdf
10/21, Legal Barriers to Oversight
Levine, D.S., "Secrecy and Unaccountability: Trade Secrets in Our Public Infrastructure.," Florida Law Review, Forthcoming. http://ssrn.com/abstract=900929 Read pp. 135-145; 162-177; 180-18
ASSIGNMENT: 2-4 page reflection piece on readings from 10/14 and 10/21, DUE 11/4
10/28, Gap-filling and translation
Sec 303(a) of HAVA http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/hava/HAVA_2002.php
42 USC § 1973gg-6. Requirements with respect to administration of voter registration http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00001973--gg006-.html
Perez, M., Report on Voter Purges, Brennan Center for Justice October 03, 2008 http://www.brennancenter.org/page/-/publications/Voter.Purges.f.pdf Read p. 1-33
Statewide Databases of Registered Voters: Study Of Accuracy, Privacy, Usability, Security, and Reliability Issues," commissioned by the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, February 2006 http://www.acm.org/usacm/PDF/VRD_report.pdf Read pp. 17-26
Stuart, G., "Databases, Felons, and Voting: Errors and Bias in the Florida Felons Exclusion List in the 2000 Presidential Elections" (September 2002). KSG Working Paper Series RWP 02-041. http://ssrn.com/abstract=336540 Read pp. 22-40
Interstate Voter Registration Database Matching: The Oregon-Washington 2008 Pilot Project. R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology; Jeff Jonas, IBM Entity Analytics; William E. Winkler, Bureau of the Census; Rebecca N. Wright, Rutgers University http://www.usenix.org/events/evtwote09/tech/full_papers/alvarez.pdf Skim
11/4, No Fly List
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/21164res20051026.html
http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1169676919316.shtm
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/17234res20030606.html
ASSIGNMENT: 2-4 page reflection on either 10/28 or 11/4 (or both) readings, DUE 11/18
11/11, HOLIDAY
11/18, Broadcast Flag and delegation
Guest Lecturer: Fred von Lohmann, Senior Staf Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Crawford, S.P., "The Biology of the Broadcast Flag," Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2. http://ssrn.com/abstract=500763 (from here you can get the full article) Read pp. 607-618; 641-651
11/25, TBA
Student Initiated Topic