Course Schedule
Before Week 1 (before January 13th)
You will complete this assignment by visiting the Before We Begin section of ShannonWeb.
- Review Syllabus, Deliverables, Schedule, Calendar and Course Policies in ShannonWeb
- Set up your Slack profile by clicking here to join our Slack workspace
- Complete the “Introduce Yourself” post in the Slack #introduction channel
- Complete the “Learning Contract” post in the Slack #learning-contract channel
Week 1, Classes 1 & 2 | Introduction
Before Class
- NY Times Privacy Project (Review this so that you have some sense of its scope. We will dive into the details during our discussions.)
During Class
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Review course requirements (Monday)
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Why is privacy important? (Wednesday)
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Review current events
Week 2, Class 3 | Perspectives on Privacy and Surveillance
Monday: MLK Day – No Class
Before Class
During Class
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Discuss different perspectives on privacy, i.e., history, right to privacy, personal vs organizational privacy, personhood and identity, right to be let alone, access, control, secrecy, technology and internet impact
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Review current events
Week 3, Classes 4 & 5 | What is Privacy?
Before Class
- The Right to Privacy, Samuel D. Warren & Louis Brandeis
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Privacy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Review this so that you have some sense of its scope. We will dive into the details during our discussions.)
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A Taxonomy Of Privacy, Daniel Solove (Review this so that you have some sense of its scope. We will dive into the details during our discussions.)
During Class
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Discuss Informational Privacy; Reductionism vs. Coherentism; Critiques: Thomson, Posner, Bork and Feminism; Meaning and Value: Control, Human Dignity, Intimacy, Social Relationships, Access, Scope; Technology; Social Dimensions
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Review current events
Week 4, Classes 6 & 7 | Defending Yourself
Books
Web
Before Class
- Review above resources
During Class
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What does defending yourself require?
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What is EFFs Panopticlick?
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Prepare a threat assessment?
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Review current events
Deliverable(s):
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PTA Phase 1: Proposal due no later than Thursday evening at 11p; submit using Slack project channel
Week 5, Classes 8 & 9 | Defending Yourself
Before Class
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Prepare your Security Plan
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Create ProtonMail account, Wikipedia: ProtonMail
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Download, install and test Signal, Wikipedia: Signal
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Download, install and test Firefox, Wikipedia: Mozilla
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Download, install and test browser extensions
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Download, install and test Tor, Wikipedia: Tor (anonymity network)
During Class
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Review
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Installations
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Security plans
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Current events
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Deliverable(s):
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PPA draft due no later than Friday evening at 11p; submit using Slack DM
Week 6, Classes 10 & 11 | Defending Yourself
Before Class
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Review Spot The Surveillance, EFF
During Class
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Monday, VR in practice
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Space 154, TLTC, Walsh Library, lower level
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Wednesday, Password Managers Discussion
Week 7, Classes 12 & 13 | Defending Yourself
Before Class
- The Best Encrypted Messaging Apps (And Their Limitations) in 2020, comparitech
- Best VPN Services for 2020, comparitech
During Class
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Review Week 5 and 6 Installs
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Defending Yourself Wrap-up
Deliverable(s):
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PTA Phase 2: Draft due no later than Thursday evening at 11p; submit using Slack project channel
Week 8 | Spring Break – No Classes
Week 9, Classes 14 & 15 | PPA/PTA Reviews
During Class
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Review and discuss PPA draft and PTA Phase 1 and 2 submissions
Deliverable(s)
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Case Simulation #1 Materials Available No Later Than Sunday at 1p
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Case Simulation #1, Phase 1 Memo Due No Later Than Thursday at 11p; Submit Using Slack DM
Week 10, Classes 16 & 17 | Case Simulation #1
During Class
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Case Simulation #1
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Monday: Phase 1, discuss case simulation memos
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Wednesday: Phase 2, team Q&A
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Week 11, Classes 18 & 19 | Pandemics, Privacy and Surveillance
During Class
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Discuss the Pandemics, Privacy and Surveillance exercise
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Research issues
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Review current events
Deliverable(s):
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PPA final due no later than Saturday evening at 11p; submit using Slack DM
Week 12, Classes 20 & 21 | Pandemics, Privacy and Surveillance
During Class
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Pandemics, Privacy and Surveillance
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Monday: Discuss issues
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Wednesday: Oral argument
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Deliverable(s)
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Case Simulation #2 Materials Available No Later Than Sunday at 1p
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Case Simulation #2, Phase 1 Memo Due No Later Than Friday at 11p; Submit Using Slack DM
Week 13, Classes 22 & 23 | Case Simulation #2
During Class
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Case Simulation #2
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Monday: Phase 1, discuss case simulation memos
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Wednesday: Phase 2, team Q&A
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Week 14, Class 24 | CCCP
Easter Monday – No Class
Before Class (Wednesday)
During Class
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Review CCCP
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Review current events
Deliverable(s):
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PTA Phase 3: Final project due no later than Friday evening at 11p; submit using Slack project channel
Week 15, Class 25 & 26 | GDPR
Before Class
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Briefly skim. I want you to have some sense of its scope. You only need to know details from the summaries linked below and from the videos and discussion.
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Guide to the GDPR, Bird & Bird (May 2017)
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Overview of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, Department of Commerce (February 29, 2016)
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Danny Palmer, “What is GDPR?,” ZDnet May 23, 2018
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“Europe’s Tough New Data-Protection Law,” The Economist, April 5, 2018
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Fact Sheet on EU Online Illegal Content Guidelines, March 1, 2018
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“The European Commission Wants Facebook, Google to Remove Terrorist Content Within an Hour After Being Flagged”, Thuy Ong, The Verge, March 1, 2018
During Class
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Review GDPR
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Review current events
Deliverable(s):
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PTA Phase 4: Project Presentation Materials due no later than Friday evening at 11p; submit using Slack project channel
Week 16, Class 27 & 28 | PTA Presentations
Before Class
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Review all PTA Project submissions
During Class
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PTA Project presentations
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Review current events
Week 17, Class 29
During Class
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Course Wrap