Privacy

Overview

Format: Lecture, featuring guest respondents
Lead: John Palfrey, featuring Herbert Burkert
Participants: Urs Gasser, Phil Malone, Charlie Nesson, and others

This pillar topic, led by John Palfrey and featuring Herbert Burkert, will cover a mixture of privacy history, theory, black letter law, and current controversies. Herbert Burkert will offer a multinational perspective of privacy law and policy, outlining the emergence of data protection law in Europe. Against this backdrop, recent US privacy online controversies –including Facebook’s Beacon program and Google’s Buzz rollout – will be explored to gain a deeper understanding of the current the state of privacy law and norms and possible ways forward. Participants Urs Gasser, Phil Malone, and Charlie Nesson will add their perspectives on these issues throughout this session.

Required Readings

Hyperpublic Media

• John Palfrey on Legal Design for Delineating Public and Private
• Hyperpublic Symposium 2011: Introduction

Privacy and Technological Points of Control

• Jonathan Zittrain, "Internet Points of Control"

Privacy and Reputation

• Jonathan Zittrain, "Strategies for a Generative Future," The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It, (New Haven: Yale University Press) 2008.
• Daniel J. Solove, "Conclusion: The Future of Reputation," The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, (New Haven: Yale University Press) 2007.
• Motion in the AutoAdmit Case

Recommended Readings

Privacy and Technological Points of Control

• John Borland, “Supreme Court rules against file swapping” (June 2005)
• Dan Goodin “Microsoft unveils 'do not track' option for IE9” (December 7 2010)

Privacy and Reputation

• Craig Newmark, "Trust and reputation systems: redistributing power and influence (April 6, 2010)
• Evlyn Rusli, "Unvarnished Becomes Honestly.com, Raises $1.2 Million And Opens The Floodgates" (October 19, 2010)
• Wikipedia Entry on the Seigenthaler Incident

Relevant Case Example

• Google Buzz
• Facebook Beacon