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INFO 390 PVT - Privacy and Technology

Last offered Spring 2014

Official Description

Explores a variety of informatics topics. Topics and prerequisites vary by section; see current Class Schedule for details. May be repeated indefinitely in separate terms when taken as different sections.

Section Description

This course prepares students to recognize, analyze, and manage privacy challenges created by technology from a sociotechnical perspective. We will review prominent theories of privacy, contemporary privacy policy, privacy law, and privacy as a social, legal, and economical value. The course will identify both privacy defeating and privacy enhancing technologies, and consider how legal regimes and policy choices as well as technological design can mitigate or heighten the risk of unwanted information disclosure.We will consider privacy implications of automated electrical and transportation systems, medical records, online behavior, biometrics, big data, cloud computing, workplace monitoring, law enforcement and national security access, and etc. 3 UG hours. Meets with LIS 390PVT. Will meet in Room 341 of the Library and Information Science Building, 501 E. Daniel St., C.

Related Faculty

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Privacy and TechnologyPVT60754S431230 - 1350 T R  ARR Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science Masooda N Bashir