Prof. Julie E. Cohen
jec@law.georgetown.edu
Cyberspace and the Law Seminar
Georgetown University Law Center
Spring 2001
Week 9: Privacy, Anonymity, and Accountability, Part IV/Buyers
and Sellers in Cyberspace, Part II: Profiling, Cookies, and Data
Mining
Required Reading:
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Dwyer v. American
Express Co., 273 Ill. App. 3d 742, 652 N.E.2d 1351 (Ill. App. 1995),
app. denied, 165 Ill. 2d 549, 662 N.E.2d 423 (Ill. 1996).
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Directive 95/46/EC
of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the
Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data
and on the Free Movement of Such Data [read arts. 1-18, 25-26 of directive;
skim "whereas" recitals].
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U.S. Dep’t of Commerce, Safe
Harbor Privacy Principles, Frequently
Asked Questions, and Safe
Harbor Enforcement Overview (July 21, 2000).
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Joseph Reagle & Lorrie Faith Cranor, The
Platform for Privacy Preferences (Nov. 1998) [skim only].
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Joseph Reagle & Lorrie Faith Cranor, Designing
a Social Protocol: Lessons Learned from the Platform for Privacy
Preferences (Sept. 1997).
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Jennifer Mack, Double-Click
Privacy Plan Slammed, ZDNet News (Feb. 15, 2000).
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Federal Trade Commission, FTC
Announces Settlement With Bankrupt Website, Toysmart.com, Regarding Alleged
Privacy Policy Violations (July 21, 2000).
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Explore the EPIC Privacy
Tools Web page.
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Declan McCullagh, Intel
Nixes Chip-Tracking ID, Wired News (Apr. 27, 2000).
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Bill Frezza, Where's
All the Outrage About the IPv6 Privacy Threat?, Internet Week Online
(Oct. 4, 1999).
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Julie E. Cohen, Privacy,
Ideology, and Technology: A Response to Jeffrey Rosen, 89 Geo. L.J.
(forthcoming 2000).
Recommended Reading:
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Explore the EFF's
collection of materials on Avrahami v. U.S. News & World Report.
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Explore the Direct Marketing Association
Web site.
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Explore the Software & Information Industry
Association Web site.
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Explore the archive
of marketing research papers by Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak,
et al., maintained by Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.
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Federal Trade Commission, Privacy
Online: Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace:
A Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress (May 2000).
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Explore the FTC's "About
Privacy" Web page.
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Explore the U.S. Dep't of Commerce Safe
Harbor Web site.
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Explore the TrustE Web site.
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Explore the P3P Web site.
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Explore the "Big Brother Inside"
Web site.
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U.S. Dep't of Commerce, National Telecommunications & Information Administration,
Privacy
and Self-Regulation in the Electronic Age (June 1997).
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Jerry Kang, Information
Privacy in Cyberspace Transactions, 50 Stan. L. Rev. 1193 (1998).
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Julie E. Cohen, Examined
Lives: Informational Privacy and the Subject as Object, 52 Stan. L.
Rev. 1373 (2000).