WELCOME TO INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW

This course focuses on personal privacy and addresses the challenges of protecting privacy in an age of information abundance.  We explore how new technology, coupled with an emerging ethos of sharing reflected by the explosive growth of social networking, has empowered government, business and individuals to monitor our everyday lives and collect, aggregate, use and sell personal information on a scale never before imagined.

The course uses a modified "flipped classroom" pedagogy where my videotaped lectures, assigned readings and other basic information about the week's privacy topic are available online and are viewed and read before each relevant class.  These materials and the student blog postings form the bases of in-class discussions.

 The course YouTube Channel may be accessed at 

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL418YWgVqZ8Y4R8N-UX74r2RHAV8h70aO

This public blog and the YouTube Channel, also public, are a part of the overall instructional design for the course which also uses TWEN (The Westlaw Educational Network)  which is accessible only by students enrolled in the course.