Since 2020 the Privacy Center has offered Georgetown Law students the opportunity to participate in a practicum course focused on Surveillance and Civil Rights. Each year practicum students engage with different facets of the challenge of protecting and promoting individuals’ and communities’ rights in our age of pervasive surveillance. Students have worked together on projects aimed at rooting out the techniques and technologies by which state-held administrative data ends up fueling ICE’s deportation machine, and in fieldwork placements for organizations advocating and litigating at the cutting edge and for communities most vulnerable to mass surveillance and techsploitation. Privacy Center Executive Directors Alvaro Bedoya and Emily Tucker, Director of Research & Advocacy Stevie Glaberson, and Associate Korica Simon have all served as faculty for the course. 

The course is scheduled to be offered next in Spring 2026.