Honors Think Tank On Transparency & Privacy in a Web 2.0 World: Week Fourteen Resources

Department of Homeland Security

Surveillance Self Defense Project

Tracked in America

Topics This Week:

• Wiretaps
• USA Patriot Act
• Department of Homeland Security

Readings/Viewings:

• Pulling Plug on Privacy, Alex Kozinski & Stephanie Grace (June 22, 2011)
• USA Patriot Act article on Wikipedia.org
• Review “Surveillance Self-Defense” on Electronic Frontier Foundation website available at https//ssd.eff.org/
• “Court Case Tests Right to Withhold Passwords.” Informationweek.com (July 14, 2011)
• Selected Pleadings & Orders filed in United States of America v. Ramona Camelia Fricosu, Criminal Case No. 10-cr-00509-REB-2, United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
• Government's Reply to Amicus Brief
• Fricosu Minute
• Fricosu Writ of Certiorari
• Fricosu Amicus Brief
• Privacy: An Abridged Overview of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Congressional Research Service Report (March 30, 2011)

Guest Presenter(s):

• Ryan RadiaCompetitive Enterprise Institute Washington, D.C.

Student Presenter(s)

• Isabella Ghabash

Student Scribe

• Alex Boren

Books

• The Patriot Act: Issues and Controversies
• Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years
• Open Secrets: Wikileaks, War, and American Diplomacy

Journal Articles

Popular Media