Privacy and the Internet I

We will have a 25 min technology primer and a 25 min law primer

What new issues does search raise for privacy? What complications arise in terms of national governments?

Relevant current issue: Dept. of Justice request for Google's search logs.

• Global Internet Policy Initiative. 2004. The International Legal Framework for Data Protection and its Transposition to Developing and Transitional Countries http://www.internetpolicy.net/privacy/20041228privacy.pdf
• The Virtual Chase (website for review) http://www.virtualchase.com/people/public_records.html

Talk which may be interesting for those with some CS background: Helping Kinsey Compute: Statistics with Secrecy by Cynthia Dwork