Privacy

Required Reading

These materials are required for the class session as well as the final exam.

The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets

From the Wall Street Journal. Good article to get up to speed quickly on the Numerati.

D.C. Circuit Introduces “Mosaic Theory” Of Fourth Amendment, Holds GPS Monitoring a Fourth Amendment Search

On August 6, 2010, the D.C. Circuit held that government use of a GPS device to monitor the location of a car on public roads is a Fourth Amendment “search” when conducted over a long-term period (in this case, a month). The case is United States v. Maynard, and it was written by Judge Douglas Ginsburg and joined by Judges Tatel and Griffith. In the opinion of Orin Kerr, if the ruling is not overturned, it is a potentially revolutionary Fourth Amendment decision: It introduces a new “mosaic” theory of the Fourth Amendment that allows individual law enforcement steps that are not searches to become a search when collected together.