Information Privacy Law

Catalog description

Information relating to businesses, private financial matters, medical history, and consumer activity is now generated and distributed at a furious pace. As the collection and use of information escalates, we are struggling as a society with the extent to which it should remain private, and as to whom. This course will provide an in-depth analysis of information privacy law, which involves a variety of different types of law (constitutional, tort, contract, property, statutory) that have developed to protect privacy in our information society. Some of the many topics covered include: media disclosures of private facts, private lives of public figures, conflicts between privacy and free speech, medical records, HIPAA, confidentiality of physician-patient relationships, genetic data, employee privacy, trade secrets, wiretapping, police records, surveillance, USA-Patriot Act, monitoring of email, drug testing, searches, surveillance, database privacy, Internet monitoring, and identity theft.