Privacy, Freedom and
Security
Spring, 2004
Howard Schwartz
Tuesday and Thursdays,
6-10 PM
Seminar II E3107
(March 30, 2004)
Program Overview
(from the EWS Class Listings)
Privacy is a relatively recent "right" as
rights go. It wasn’t until the Griswold
case in 1963 that the Supreme Court enunciated anything like a right to
privacy. Yet such a right has surely
been implicit in American ideas of individualism and freedom. But, those ideas also are relatively recent
as ideas go. Besides, as much as
Americans profess that they want to keep their lives private, they have an
insatiable desire to violate the privacy of others and to reveal their own
secrets for therapeutic and economic reasons.
In this program, we will study how the tension between
individual and society manifests itself.
This tension includes how information and communication technology both
strengthen and weaken privacy while "confession" (e.g., Augustine and
Rousseau) and memoir demonstrate a desire to reveal as well as hide. We will also review current public policy
debates about privacy and consider, from a political theory perspective, how
much privacy we really need. The current
war on terrorism and the debate over the USA-Patriot Act will also lead us to
consider the overall relationship between privacy, security and freedom: Does
an increase in one lead to a decrease in the others? Do they complement each
other? Is there some optimum balance?
Prerequisite: Some college
level work in history, social science or philosophy
Credits awarded in: history, politics, philosophy, and
communications
Books (At the
Evergreen Book Store):
Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, The Right to Privacy
Rosen, Jeffrey, The naked crowd: reclaiming security and freedom in an anxious age
David Brin, The
Transparent Society
Molly Peacock, ed., The
Private I
Patricia Boling, Privacy and the Politics of Intimate Life
Amitai Etzioni, The
Limits of Privacy
Additional
Readings:
Details on HIPAA
Headlines on computer privacy issues
USA Patriot Act links:
http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/usapatriotact/index.html
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/
http://www.lifeandliberty.gov/index.html
http://www.privacy2000.org/index.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32186.pdf
Dalia Lathwick, A Guide to the Patriot Act:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2087984/
Ethan Bronner,
Collateral Damage:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E1DD103AF931A15751C0A9629C8B63
Augustine, The Confessions (Selections)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/conf.pdf
Rousseau, The Confessions (Selections)
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/r/r864c
Warren and Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy,” Harvard Law Review
http://www.lawrence.edu/fac/boardmaw/privacy_brand_warr2.html
Roe v. Wade; Griswold v. Connecticut
Go to: www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.htm/ and enter case parties
Excerpts from Jeff Weintraub, et al, Public and Private in Thought and Practice
plus assorted handouts and other internet references
Requirements and
Assignments:
(Under Development: See separate handout)
Will likely include a team/individual research project on one of the following:
Findings will be presented in a paper and a presentation at the end of the quarter.
There will also be bi-weekly annotations on the readings.
Week |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
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March 30/April 1 Security
and Freedom |
Introduction and
Overview
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Readings: Private I, pp. 3-22; Rosen, pp. 3-61; Right to Privacy, pp. xiii-49. Lecture/Seminar
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April 6/8
Security and Freedom |
Readings: Rosen, pp. 62-129; Etzioni, pp. 103-137; ”Private I, pp. 130-144. Workshop
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Readings: Rosen, pp. 130-225;
Form Project Groups
Seminar |
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April 13/15
Public Policy Issues |
Readings: Etzioni, pp. 1-74.
USA Patriot Act Readings Guest Speaker
Due: Annotation 1; Project Proposal
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Readings: Etzioni,
pp, 75-102; 138-182; Private I, pp. 192-212; Seminar
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April 20/22 Law and Policy |
Readings: Etzioni, pp. 183-215; Private I, pp. 103-116,145-154 |
Readings: Right to Privacy, pp. 55-147; Cases: Griswold;
Roe v. Wade; Casey, etc., on the web
Seminar
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April 27/29
Policy and Philosophy |
Readings: Right to Privacy, pp. 151-222; Private I, pp. 186-202. Warren and Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy” (On the Web); Guest Speaker
Project Groups meet
Due: Annotation 2
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Readings: Right to Privacy, pp. 225-332 ; Private I, pp. 117-127. Seminar
Due: Project Progress Report 1 |
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May 4/6
Philosophy and Politics |
Readings: Excerpts from Jeff Weintraub, et al, Public and Private in Thought and Practice (Handout); Boling, pp. 3-81. Due: Annotation 3 |
Readings: Boling, pp. 85-160 Seminar
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May 11/13 Confessions and
Memoirs |
Readings: Augustine, Confessions; Rousseau, Confessions
(On the Web); The Private I, pp. 28-94. Due: Annotation 4; Guest Speaker
Project Progress Report II; Seminar
Project Groups meet
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May 18/20 Solutions? |
Readings: Brin, Part 1. Due: Annotation 5 |
Readings: Brin, Part 2 Seminar
Guest Speaker |
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May 25/27 Solutions?
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Readings: Brin, Part 3; Lester, “The Reinvention of Privacy;” (Handout) |
Presentation Preparation |
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June 1/3
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Student Presentations
Due: Annotation 6 |
Student Presentations |
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June 7-11 |
Evaluation conferences |
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Faculty Contact information:
Evergreen Office: Until approximately April 20: Library 33214; afterwards, Seminar II B-2121
Telephone: 360-867-6723
E-mail: schwarth@evergreen.edu