Legal Studies 391C - S-No Place to Hide: Law & Poli

Surveillance, databases, privacy, and the production of data images are the backdrop for this course. The social and political implications of various data images, and the law's role in structuring the terrain and the ways in which data images can be manipulated and acted upon, is the focus. Potential topics include: Data images and identity; Data matching and mining in the construction of those images; Demographic / profiling industry and how it relates to marketing, public policy, and policing - security; National ID's; Workplace bio-metric and background checks; Private and state surveillance.

Open to Legal Studies majors only. Pre Req: LEGAL 250