Spring 2001

Class meetings: Thursdays 2-5, room 5-234

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

Limor Fried, Tzer Hung Low, Sima Kevin Nazemi, and Faisal Reza	Auctorizo ergo sum: The Lure, Perils, Privacy and Liability Implications of Authentication, Identification, and Key Management Systems Postscript version, PDF version
Katherine Koch, Matt Taylor, and Stanley Trepetin	Platform for Privacy Preferences Project: Present and Future MS Word version Powerpoint presentation
Salvador Ochoa, Jamie Rasmussen, Christine Robson, and Michael Salib	Reidentification of Individuals in Chicago’s Homicide Database: A Technical and Legal Study MS Word version
Sarah Boucher, Edward Cotler, and Stephen Larson	Internet Wiretapping and Carnivore MS Word version Powerpoint presentation
Brian Lim, Chris Laas, Shelly O’Gilvie, Alexander Yip	Anomymity Tools for the Internet PDF version Postscript version