Wed. February 27, 2008: Wendy Seltzer on Expectations of Privacy for a Database Age
The Center for Research on Computation and Society continues its weekly lunch seminar:
CRCS Privacy and Security Lunch Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119
Topic: Expectations of Privacy for a Database Age
Speaker: Wendy Seltzer: Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and
Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/
Abstract:
Much of privacy law centers on the public’s “reasonable
expectations of privacy.” Yet in the Internet era, our expectations and
experiences may become disconnected: we don’t often realize how much
information we’ve given to search engines, social network sites, and
other Internet intermediaries, nor how that information looks when
aggregated. How can we balance the interests of the collectors and the
collected? Can technologists help us to understand the identifying
implications of data collection?
Bio:
Wendy is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northeastern University
Law School, studying intellectual property, privacy, and free expression
online. As a Fellow with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet &
Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse,
helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to
cease-and-desist threats. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D.
from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code
to program (Perl and MythTV).