4th Class -- Private Sector Information

In this session, we will examine the balancing of interests, profiling, free press, copyright, and special problems in cyberspace. We will also take practical look at litigation and other practice concerns in this legal area.

Assigned Readings

Walter A. Effross, Commercial Profiles v. Suspect Classifications . . . (visited Feb. 12, 2000).

J. Clay Smith, Jr., The Precarious Implications of DNA Profiling, 55 U. PITT. L. REV. 865 (1994).

Declan McCullagh, DNA Databases Go Too Far (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

Ed Bott, We Know Were You Live, Work, Shop, Bank, Play and So Does Everyone Else, PC COMPUTING, Mar. 2000, at 80.

Here Come the Judge, CHAIN STORE AGE, Feb. 2000, at 70.

Marc Slayton, An Introduction to Cookies (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

Will Rodger, Activists Charge DoubleClick Double Cross (visited Feb. 16, 2000).

Victor Mayer-Schonberger, The Internet Privacy Legislation: Cookies for a Treat? (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

Surfer Beware II: Notice is Not Enough (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

Your Browser is Selling You Out, PC COMPUTING, Mar. 2000, at 91.

The Better Business Bureau Online Privacy Policy (visited Feb. 16, 2000).

How the TRUSTe Program Works (visited Feb. 16, 2000).

Feinstein Bill to Keep Info on Children Private, NEWSBYTES, May 23, 1999.

Children's Privacy Protection and Parental Empowerment Act of 1996.

Largest Database Marketing Firm Sends Phone Numbers, Addresses of 5,000 Families with Kids to TV Reporter Using Name of Child Killer (visited Feb. 16, 2000).

Many Companies Fail to Protect Confidential Employee Data (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

Mark S. Dichter & Michael S. Burkhardt, Electronic Interaction in the Workplace. . . (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

Genetic Information and the Workplace (visited Feb. 14, 2000).

President's Press Release of Feb. 8, 2000.

Lee Tien, Cheap Surveillance, Essential Facilities, & Privacy Norms (visited Feb. 12, 2000).

Neighborhood Spycam Helps Catch Murder Suspect (visited Feb. 12, 2000).

Kenneth P. Weinberg, Cryptography: "Key Recovery" Shaping Cyberspace,
5 J. INTELL. PROP. L. 667 (1998).

Henry V. Barry, Information Property and the Internet, 19 HASTINGS COMM/ENT L. J. 619 (1997).

European Commission Press Release of July 25, 1995.

Illinois Reporter's Privilege, 735, ILCS 5/8-901 et seq.

Illinois v. Pawlaczyk, 2000 Ill. LEXIS 9 (Jan. 21, 2000).