Fall 2005

Class meetings: Thursdays, 2-5 in room 34-304

Course Calendar

Class	Topic
	There is a pre-semester writing assignment that must be completed before 5 PM on Wednesday, September 7. No one will be admitted to the class without having completed the assignment.
Sept. 8	Course overview and introduction; policy making and the structure of law
	Everyone who is admitted to the course should register for the writing rotisserie on Thursday evening, September 8, in order to get the writing assignment that will be posted on Friday morning.
	Unit A: Regulating the Decentralized Internet
Sept. 15	The Internet meets the US Constitution
Sept. 22	The Legacy of Reno: The strengths and limits of filtering and user control
	Unit B: Regulating Government Use of Surveillance Technology
Sept. 29	Fourth Amendment Foundations and the first century of electronic surveillance
Oct. 6	International issues
Oct. 13	Technology-driven public-private boundary shifts; The crypto wars
Oct. 20	Profiling and datamining post-9/11
Oct. 27	Midterm exam
	Unit C: The transparency challenge
Nov. 3	Anonymity vs. transparency
Nov. 10	Personal information on the Web
	Thesis and arguments for papers due Nov. 17. For details, see information on papers.
Nov. 17	Transparency in consumer protection and commercial regulation
	Origins of broadcast regulation
	Complete paper drafts are due December 5. Send these by email to 6.805-staff@mit.edu
Dec. 8	TBA
	TBA Final papers are due December 14. Information on papers — including milestones a due dates throughout the semester.

Student Papers

Harvey Jones, José Hiram Soltren	Facebook: Threats to Privacy
Stefanie Alki Delichatsios and Temitope Sonuyi	Get to Know Google: Because They Know You
Daniel Peng	The Freedom of Information Act: Holding Government Accountable
Waseem Daher	Policy and Practice in Student Records
Jacqueline Tio	MIT Privacy Protection of Job Applicant and Employee Information