PUBP 710: Public and Private Regulation of Technology
Schedule
1. January 26
hello world
Economics of information; Networks; Regulation of new technology
Easley and Kleinberg. Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World. Cambridge University Press. 2010. Chapter 1.
Falzone, Anthony. Regulation and Technology. Journal of Law and Public Policy. January, 2013.
Posner, Richard. The Economics of Privacy. The American Economic Review. 1981. Vol 71(2), pp. 405-409.
The Economist. Technology: Looking Both Ways. February 22, 2014.
Twitter.com. Getting Started with Twitter. https://support.twitter.com/articles/215585-getting-started-with-twitter
Twitter.com Privacy Policy https://twitter.com/privacy
2. February 2
Privacy Law in the U.S. and EU
US Privacy Law; Role of FTC; EU Privacy Rulings
European Commission, Court of Justice “Right to be Forgotten” http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/
GAO. Information Resellers: Consumer Privacy Framework Needs to Reflect Changes in Technology and the Marketplace. December 18, 2013.
NHPR, The Exchange, July 14, 2014. Should the US Adopt a “Right To Be Forgotten” Online? Podcast available at NHPR.org
Sengupta, Somini. No U.S. Action, So States Move on Privacy Law. The New York Times, October 30, 2013.
The White House, Office of the Press Security. Securing Cyberspace: President Obama Announces New Cybersecurity Legislative Proposal and Other Cybersecurity Efforts. January 13, 2015. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/13/securing-cyberspace-president-obama-announces-new-cybersecurity-legislat
3. February 9
Guest Lecture: Peter Miller
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=29967695
Senior Counsel at Crowell and Moring LLP, former Chief Privacy Officer at FTC
Who’s Your Data?
What is Big Data? Crash course on data science; What do your data say about you?
Acxiom.com, AboutTheData, www.aboutthedata.com/portal
Anderson, Chris. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Wired Magazine. June 23, 2008.
Davenport and Patil. Data Science: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century. Harvard Business Review, October 2012.
Executive Office of the President. Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values. May 14 2014.
FTC. Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: Recommendations for Businesses and Policymakers. March 2012.
Oracle.com. Data Mining Concepts. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/datamine.111/b28129/process.htm#DMCON002
4. February 16 SNOW
5. February 23
Guest Lecture: Marisa Uchen
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/marisa-uchin/2/203/b26
Director, Regulatory Affairs and Market Development at Opower
Neutral Regulation
Net Neutrality, TBD based on the FCC; Regulation of telecommunication
Anders, George. The Right Way to Fix the Internet. MIT Technology Review. October 14, 2014.
Crawford. Cable Regulation in the Internet Era. 2014, NBER
FCC, “The Open Internet.” http://www.fcc.gov/openinternet
Hausman and Sidak. Telecommunications Regulation: Current Approaches with the End in Sight. 2013.
Howard, Alex. What’s Next for Net Neutrality? Reclassification or a Tiered Internet? E-Pluribusunum. January 16, 2014. http://e-pluribusunum.com/2014/01/16/what-next-for-net-neutrality-reclassification-or-a-tiered-internet/
Policy Brief I
6. March 2
Guest Lecture: Jeremy Gillula
https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jeremy-gillula-0
Staff Technologist to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Glass Houses
Economics of targeted ads; The internet of everything; Social norms IRL and online; Privacy breaches, price discrimination
Duhigg. How Companies Learn Your Secrets. The New York Times. February 16, 2012.
Lenard and Rubin. The Big Data Revolution: Privacy Considerations. Technology Policy Institute. December 2013.
Manjoo. Larry Page On Google’s Many Arms. The New York Times, June 25, 2014.
(optional) Shiller. First Degree Price Discrimination Using Big Data. Brandeis University. July 31, 2013.
Tanner. Different Customers, Different Prices, Thanks to Big Data. Forbes. March 26, 2014. (see also WSJ 12/24/12 “Websites Vary Prices, Deals”)
(optional) Zarsky, Tal. Desperately Seeking Solutions: Using Implementation-Based Solutions for the Troubles of Information Privacy in the Age of Data Mining and the Internet Society. Maine Law Review, Vol 56(1). 2013.
The White House. Big Data and Differential Pricing. February 2015. http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Big_Data_Report_Nonembargo_v2.pdf
Project Proposals Due
Note: No Class March 9 (Spring Break)
7. March 16
Guest Lecture: Ben Sperry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbensperry
Associate Director, International Center for Law and Economics and Legal Fellow, TechFreedom
Meta Security
The Aspen Institute. Is Social Media A Dangerous Force Against Democracy? August 6, 2014. Watch the lecture series at http://www.aspeninstitute.org/about/blog/social-media-dangerous-force-against-democracy
Intelligence innovations; Legal framework for surveillance; Domestic v. foreign intelligence gathering; Prism, Snowden, NSA, Social networks and democratization
Center for Democracy and Technology. The USA Freedom Act (HR 3361) Summary and Analysis. June 3, 2014. https://d1ovv0c9tw0h0c.cloudfront.net/files/2014/06/USA-FREEDOM-CDT-sum.pdf
The Economist. Special Report: China and the Internet. April 6th, 2013.
Heins, Marjorie. The Brave New World of Social Media Censorship. Harvard Law Review. June 20, 2014.
Kehl, Danielle. Surveillance Costs: The NSA’s Impact on the Economy, Internet Freedom and Cybersecurity. New America’s Open Technology Institute. July 2014.
President Obama, Press Conference on NSA Surveillance, August 9, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paZgOC7Wqo0
Rotenberg. On International Privacy: A Path Forward for the US and Europe. Harvard International Review. June 15, 2014.
8. March 23
Guest Lecture: Evan Selinger
http://www.rit.edu/cla/philosophy/Selinger.html
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Readings by Evan Selinger:
Is Autocorrect Making you Boring?
Robot Servants Are Going to Make Your Life Easier and Then Ruin It
Why We Should Be Careful About Adopting Social Robots
Sony! Target! Heartbleed!
Data breaches; Responsibility across business, credit card companies, government; Pooled insurance for ID theft; Cracking down on hackers
**GAO. Cybersecurity: Threats Impacting the Nation. April 24, 2012.
Moore, T. Introducing the Economics of Cybersecurity: Principles and Policy Options. Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy. 2010.
Office of the Attorney General, California Department of Justice. California Data Breach Report. October 2014.
**The White House. White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection. Feb 13, 2015. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/13/fact-sheet-white-house-summit-cybersecurity-and-consumer-protection
9. March 30
Guest Lecture: Alex Howard
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderbhoward
Writer and editor, focused on technology, journalism, government and society.
Sharing is Caring
The Sharing Economy; Local Regulation; Regulatory Capture; Data and Regulation
Dungca, Nicole. In first, Uber to Share Ride Data with Boston. The Boston Globe. January 13, 2015.
**Downes, Larry. Lessons from Uber: Why Innovation and Regulation Don’t Mix. Forbes. February 6, 2013.
The Economist. All Eyes on the Sharing Economy. March 9, 2013.
**Frizell, Sam. A Historical Argument Against Uber: Taxi Regulations are There for a Reason. Time Magazine. November 29, 2014.
Listokin, Siona. Regulating Uber: Data Collection is Key. Slate.com, January 9, 2014.
PayPal. 21st Century Regulation: Putting Innovation At the Heart of Payments Regulation. http://www.ebaymainstreet.com/sites/default/files/PayPal-Payment-Regulations-Booklet-US.pdf
10. April 6
Guest Lecture: Eli Dourado
http://mercatus.org/eli-dourado
Research Fellow and Director of the Technology Policy Center, Mercatus Center
The Courts
Fair Use and IP; Cryptocurrency, Sexting, cyber bullying; Supreme Court and Technology
Bazelon, Emily. How to Stop the Bullies. The Atlantic. March 2013.
**Brito, Jerry and Andrea Castillo. Bitcoin: A Primer for Policymakers. Mercatus Center. August 19, 2013. http://mercatus.org/publication/bitcoin-primer-policymakers
**Duggan, Maeve. Online Harrassment. Pew Research Center. October 22, 2014. http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/
**Dourado, Eli. Bitcoin Isn’t Money, It’s the Internet of Money. The Umlaut. January 8, 2014. https://theumlaut.com/2014/01/08/bitcoin-internet-of-money/
The Kojo Nnamdi Show. Supreme Court Rulings on TV Viewing and Cell Phone Searches. June 25, 2014 (listen to show or read transcript)
Manjoo, Farhad. The Tech-Savvy Supreme Court. The New York Times. June 26, 2014
11. April 13
Healthy Privacy
Guest Lecture: Chris Rasmussen
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-rasmussen/4/84b/a03
Senior Privacy Specialist, Blue Shield of California. Former Policy Analyst with the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Readings
How Personal Health Data is Being Tracked and Used
Health_privacy_is_difficult_but_not_impossible_in_a_post-HIPAA_data-driven_world
Policy Brief II
12. April 20
Guest Lecture: Jen Golbeck
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/
Director, Human-Computer Interaction Lab and Associate Professor, University of Maryland.
The Sociology Network
Social science and big data; Facebook News Feed; Google Flu Trends; Anonymous networks
Golbeck, Jennifer. The Curly Fry Conundrum: Why Social Media “likes” Say More Than You Might Think. TED Talk. April 2014.
Kramer, Guillory, Hancock. Experimental Evidence of Massive Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA June 2014, Vol 111 no 24, pgs 8788-8790.
Lazer, David, Ryan Kennedy, Gary King, and Alessandro Vespignani. 2014. The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis. Science 343, no. 14 March: 1203-1205.
Rudder, Christian. We Experiment on Human Beings! OkCupid Blog. July 28, 2014. http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/
13. April 26
file I/O
SUNDAY class at my home in Chevy Chase, MD. More details to come.
Project Presentations
14. April 27
Brogrammers and Accountants
Industry navel gazing: diversity, ageism, gentrification; STEM shortages; Tax avoidance; Discrimination in the digital economy
Houlder, Boland, Politi. Tax Avoidance: The Irish Inversion. The Financial Times. April 29, 2014.
Scheiber. The Brutal Ageism of Tech. The New Republic. March 23, 2014.
Vara, Vauhini. Can Intel Make Silicon Valley More Diverse? The New Yorker. January 11, 2015.
Final Project Due
Policy Brief III
May 4
Project Critiques Due