Privacy: Concepts and Culture Informing Law and Policy

Catalog description

In this seminar about the development of privacy law and policy, we will explore conceptual understandings of privacy with class sessions dedicated to consent and control, anonymity and obscurity, personality and identity, freedom from surveillance, manipulation and attention, power, and trust. We will spend the second part of the semester looking at the ways these concepts play out in different cultural contexts: the United States, U.S. corporate culture, the EU, China, and India. Throughout, we will consider the ways cultures change over time, the relevance of demographics, the power of norms, and the role of emerging technologies.