Privacy Law

The class addresses issues of new technologies, social norms, gaps in current law, and vanguard questions of internet life. We cover privacy theory, privacy torts, how the Fourth Amendment adapts to new technologies, consumer privacy, as well as "hot" topics like nonconsensual pornography, privacy by design, artificial intelligence, and robots. We spend a considerable amount of time discussing implicit bias, discrimination, and other social justice issues associated with privacy and new technologies. Students work in teams to design privacy litigation strategies, complete practical assignments including responding to data breaches and writing model legislation, and learn how to represent victims of online harassment.