3rd Class -- Private Sector Information

Here, we will concentrate on information collected, maintained and used by the private sector. Topics may include: e-commerce, banking, credit information, medical information, among others.

Assigned Readings

Nina Bernstein, Lives on File, N.Y. Times, June 12, 1997, at A1.

Ian Ith, ID Fraud, The Seattle Times, July 27, 1999, at A1.

Beth Givens, Identity Theft (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

A. Michael Froomkin, Flood Control on the Information Ocean. . ., 15 U. Pitt. J. L. Comm. 395 (1996)

Marcello Halpern & Ajay K. Mehrotra, The Tangled Web of E-Commerce, The Computer Law., Feb. 2000, at 8.

George B. Trubow, Regulating Transaction on the Internet, 24 Ohio N.U.L. Rev. 831 (1998).

Consumer Privacy on the World Wide Web (visited Feb. 15, 2000).

Consumer Protection in Cyberspace: Combating Fraud on the Internet (visited Feb. 15, 2000).

Government Activity (visited Feb. 16, 2000).

In re Geocities, Decision and Order (visited Feb. 15, 2000).

In re Liberty Financial Companies, Agreement Containing Consent Order (visited Feb. 15, 2000).

FTC v. Reverseauction.com, Complaint (visited Feb. 5, 2000).

PIRG: Mistakes Do Happen (visited Feb. 15, 2000).

Bruce Stanley, Visa Card Data Ransomed (visited Feb. 16, 2000).

Diane Scarponi, Slipped Through the Net (visited Feb. 16, 2000).

Calling Number Identification Service - Caller ID (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

PAPUC, et al v. FCC, 75 F.3d 1350 (9th Cir. 1996).

U.S. West v. FCC, 182 F.3d 1224 (10th Cir. 1999).

Who Gets to see Your Records? (visited Feb. 15, 2000).

President's Press Release of October 29, 1999.

HHS Fact Sheet: Protecting the Privacy of Patients' Medical Records (visited Feb. 15, 2000).

Patients' Bill of Rights, H.R. 358, 106th Cong.

Model State Public Health Privacy Act (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

* Lawrence Berkley Laboratory.
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