Current Issues in Privacy Law.

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This course explores the patchwork approach that characterizes constitutional, common law, statutory, and regulatory privacy law in the US federal system, including how existing and evolving law does or should address privacy and competing interests impacted by new technologies and industry or government practices. Typical privacy topics covered relate to media, health, criminal investigation, anonymity, employment, public records, consumer behavior, and other aspects of personal autonomy including decisional privacy.