Law and Public Policy

Goals

• Discuss examples and case studies about existing legal and policy frameworks
• Understand that the “correct” policy may be neither obvious nor easy to enforce
• Understand there may be significant regional variability
• Recognize that any technology is a double edged sword

Laws and Regulations

• What are the Fair Information Practices?
• How do the US FTC Principles compare?
• What are four models of privacy protection?
  • What are some examples of countries using each model?

• Compare a comprehensive model to a sectoral model

• What portions of US law apply to privacy?
• What is the GDPR and what does it require?
• How did “Do Not Track” try to leverage policy to solve a privacy problem?

Policy Debates

Crypto Wars

• What is the policy question being debated?
• Why does this question arise?
• What is a dual-use technology?
• What are some arguments in favor of regulation?
• What are some arguments against regulation?

Backdoors

• What is the policy question being debated?
• Why does this question arise?
  • What technical issues were at the core of the Apple vs. FBI debate?
• What is key escrow?
  • How does it apply to local storage?
  • How does it apply to end-to-end encryption?
    • Why have end-to-end encryption in the first place?
• What are some arguments in favor of backdoors?
• What are some arguments against backdoors?

Anonymity

• What is the policy question being debated?
• Why does this question arise?
• How does TOR work?
• What are some arguments in favor of regulation?
• What are some arguments against regulation?