Law 897: The Law in Cyberspace

• Read the first chapter of David Brin’s 1998 book, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?.


• Read Richard A. Posner, Our Domestic Intelligence Crisis, Washington Post (December 21, 2005)


• Read Bruce Schneier, The Eternal Value of Privacy, WIRED (May 18, 2006)


• Read Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing (April 2007)


• Read David Brin’s 2011 column, World Cyberwar and the Inevitability of Radical Transparency


• Read Alexis Madrigal, How Much is Your Data Worth?, Atlantic (March 19, 2012)


• Read the Washington Statement in support of data protection (June 24, 2013)


• Optional: Read Articles 17 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (entered in to force 1976) and Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights(1948)


• Read Bruce Schneier, The Private-Public Surveillance Partnership, Bloomberg News (July 31, 2013)

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