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

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Publicprivacyblog.org

youarebeingwatched.us

Computer professionals for Social Responsibility

Topics This Week:

• GPS tracking
• Four square, Facebook places, Gowalla, etc.
• Google Street Views
• Google maps
• Video surveillance

Readings/Viewings:

• No Place to Hide: First Amendment Protection for Location Privacy, Ted Claypoole (June 2, 2011)
• Should the Government Need a Search Warrant to Track Your Car with GPS? Adam Cohen (July 5, 2011)
• Letter to Steve Jobs, Apple CEO from Congressman Edward Markey dated June 24, 2010 and Apple reply
• Letter to Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, from Congressman Edward Markey dated April 21, 2011 and Apple reply
• Summary of Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011, Venable law firm, dated June 20. 2011
• The Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act and “Frequently Asked Questions” on the Act posted by Senate sponsor Ron Wyden
• Law Enforcement Use of Global Positioning (GPS) Devices to Monitor Motor Vehicles: Fourth Amendment Considerations, Congressional, Research Service Report (February 28, 2011)
• Lillie Coney Testimony before Congress at http://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/coneytest060706.pdf

Guest Presenters:

• Lillie Coney, Associate Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington D.C.
• Justin Brookman, Center for Digital Technology, Washington, D.C.

Student Presenter(s)

Student Scribe

• Allison Tripp

Books

• Video surveillance: power and privacy in everyday life
• Private lives and public surveillance: social control in the computer age
• Privacy: Defending an Illusion

Journals

• Using Mobile Communications to Assert Privacy From Video Surveillance
• "The gaze without eyes": video-surveillance and the changing nature of urban space
• Tracking tourists in the digital age

Popular Media

• NPR: The Video Suveillance Debate
• NYT: Judges Divided Over Growing GPS Surveillance
• Gizmodo: The End of Privacy: Entire City to Track People with Public Eye Scanners