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Class meetings: Thursdays 2-5, room 5-234
Click on the individual weeks below to see the overview and the assignments for each class, including the assignment to be completed as preparation before the class.
| Thursday class | Topic |
|---|---|
| February 8 | Course Overview; The First Amendment and freedom of expression. |
| February 15 | Harmful speech in cyberspace: Defamation and indecency |
| February 22 | A conversation with Robert Ellis Smith |
| March 1 | Current developments in privacy law |
| March 8 | Class field trip to the Conference on Computers Freedom and Privacy |
| March 15 | The Fourth Amendment |
| March 22 | Midterm exam |
| Spring vacation | |
| April 5 | Project team launch |
| April 12 | Group presentation: Protecting Privacy Through Anonymity Tools |
| April 19 | Group presentation: Authentication, Identification & Key Management
Project plan due from all teams |
| April 26 | Group presentation: Peer-to-peer infrastructures
Oral progress report 1 due from all teams |
| May 3 | Group presentation: Deidentification and Reidentification
Oral progress report 2 due from all teams |
| May 10 | Group presentation: User empowerment tools built on P3P
Draft paper due from all teams |
| May 17 | Group presentation: Internet wiretapping and Carnivore
Final paper due from all teams Information on finishing the papers role play |
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