LEID 128 - Privacy Law

3 Credit(s)

Elective course for the bachelor’s and associate’s degrees.
Privacy Law offers a comprehensive, indepth treatment of all privacy issues. Coverage of government surveillance topics, such as Fourth Amendment, sensory enhancement technologies, wire tapping, computer searches, ISP records, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the USA-Patriot Act; a thorough examination of new issues, such as privacy and access to public records, government access to personal information, airline passenger screening and profiling, data mining, identity theft, consumer privacy, and financial privacy; coverage of emerging information technologies, such as computer databases, RFID (radio frequency identification technology), cookies, spyware, data mining, and others; and an introductory chapter with a thought-provoking philosophical discussion of information privacy. This is a nonlegal specialty course.
Prerequisite(s): Introduction to Law.