Prof. Julie E. Cohen
jec@law.georgetown.edu
Cyberspace and the Law Seminar
Georgetown University Law Center
Spring 2001
Week 7: Privacy, Anonymity, and Accountability, Part II:
Government Access to Electronic Communications
Required Reading:
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President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Report
Summary -- Critical Foundations: Thinking Differently (1997).
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United States v.
Morris, 928 F.2d 504 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 817 (1991).
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United States v.
Riggs, 739 F. Supp. 414 (N.D. Ill. 1990) (Parts I & II.A-C
only).
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Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,
18 U.S.C. § 1030, as amended 1996.
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Elinor Abreu, The
Hack Attack, The Standard (Feburary 14, 2000).
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Naomi Klein, My
Mafiaboy, The Nation (March 13, 2000).
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Catherine Therese Clark, From CrimINet to Cyber-Perp: Toward an Inclusive
Approach to Policing the Evolving Criminal Mens Rea on the Internet, 75
Or. L. Rev. 191 (1996) [in reader only, or obtain
via WESTLAW or LEXIS].
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Steve
Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service, 36 F.3d 457 (5th
Cir. 1994).
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Communications Assistance for
Law Enforcement Act, 47 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1006.
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Digital Privacy and Security Working Group, Electronic
Surveillance Task Force, Interim
Report: Communications Privacy in the Digital Age (June 1997) (Parts
I-IV only).
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Review Declan McCullagh, IETF
Says 'No Way' to Net Taps, Wired News (Nov. 11, 1999).
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Donald M. Kerr, Internet
and Data Interception Capabilities Developed by the FBI, Statement
for the Record Before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee
on the Constitution (July 24, 2000).
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Letter from
Senate Judiciary Committee to Hon. Louis Freeh, Director, FBI (Nov.
21, 2000).
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Timothy C. May, The
Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988).
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Junger v. Daley,
209 F.3d 481 (6th Cir. 2000).
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Electronic Privacy Information Center, Cryptography
and Liberty 2000: An International Survey of Encryption Policy (2000).
Recommended Reading:
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Explore the Presidential
Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection's Web site.
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Explore the Cybercrime.gov Web site,
maintained by the U.S. Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual
Property Section.
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Susan A. Freiwald, Uncertain
Privacy: Communication Attributes After the Digital Telephony Act,
69 S. Cal. L. Rev. 949 (1996).
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Federal Communications Commission, Third
Report and Order, Appendix A: Final Rules (Aug. 31, 1999).
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Explore the FBI's Carnivore
Diagnostic Tool Web page.
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Explore the Electronic Privacy Information Center's Carnivore
FOIA Documents archive.
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Explore the StopCarnivore.org Web
site.
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Bernstein v. United
States, 176 F.3d 1132 (9th Cir. 1999), withdrawn & reh'g en banc
granted, 192 F.3d 1308 (1999).
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A. Michael Froomkin, It
Came From Planet Clipper: The Battle Over Cryptographic Key Escrow,
1996 U. Chi. Legal Forum 15 (1996).
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Hal Abelson, et al., The Risks
of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party Encryption (as
updated 1998).
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H.R.
850, Security and Freedom through Encryption (SAFE) Act (Bill Summary and
Status only).