Classes

Description: This course will explore the complex challenges of effectively representing clients in a wide variety of intellectual property, technology and internet-related disputes. Using a rich set of cyberlaw-related case studies drawn from recent legal controversies...

Description: This course will focus on language-based information security: using programming language techniques and abstractions to specify, reason about, and enforce, information security. Most of the course will focus on information-flow control: controlling the flow of...

Description: The Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, engages Harvard Law School students in a wide range of real-world licensing, client counseling, advocacy, litigation, and policy projects and cases, covering a broad spectrum of Internet...

Description: What is privacy, and how is it affected by recent developments in computer technology? Course critically examines popular concepts of privacy and uses a rigorous analysis of technologies to understand the policy and ethical issues at play. Case studies: RFID...

Description: How collisions of interests in online space play out in lawsuits or in proposals before legislatures -- controversies involving Google, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft, MySpace. Examines broad questions of social and technology policy through the lens of law and...

Description: Algorithms to guarantee privacy and authenticity of data during communication and computation. Proofs of security based on precise definitions and assumptions. Topics may include one-way functions, private-key and public-key encryption, digital signatures...

Professor: Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D. ( email) Lectures, Labs: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:30pm, CGIS K-107 Office Hours: 4-6pm on Tuesdays, CGIS Knafel 310 Course Description This course examines legal, political, social, commercial and technical struggles for control over...

Professor: Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D. ( email) Lecture-Lab: Thursdays, 4-6pm, CGIS K-107 Office Hours: 4-6pm on Tuesdays, CGIS Knafel 310 Course Description This course explores ways to create and use technology to assess and solve real-world societal, political and governance...

Description: This course is about the following question: How can we enable the analysis of datasets with sensitive information about individuals while protecting the privacy of those individuals? This question is motivated by the vast amounts of data about individuals that...

Description: As smartphones, the internet and an array of personal computing devices have become increasingly ubiquitous in our society, so have such technologies also become either the means or the object of a wide range of criminal activity. Many of the most challenging...

Co-Instructors: Kobbi Nissim & Or Sheffet Meets: Tuesday/Thursday 11:30AM - 1:00PM in MD 119 Course Description: This course will cover topics in cryptography and data privacy drawn from the theoretical computer science research literature with particular focus on...

Prof. Urs Gasser Spring 2014 Seminar Meets: T 5:00pm - 7:00pm 2 classroom credits Online privacy has become a major issue for Internet users, technology companies, online business, researchers, and policy-makers around the world, as more and more personal information is...