Week 6 Lecture - Privacy

Josh Hug, March 4th, 2025

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Clearview.AI: 'Access My Information'.
• Recommended [Ed post] Amy Harmon. Ideas & Trends: Privacy on Hold; Smile, You're on Candid Cellphone Camera. New York Times. 2003.
• Recommended [Ed post] Charles Duhigg. How Companies Learn Your Secrets (Josh note: if too long, start reading from the word 'arrival'). The New York Times Magazine. 2012.
• Recommended [Ed post] Douglas MacMillan, Nick Anderson. Student tracking, secret scores: How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply. The Washington Post. 2019.
• Optional [Ed post] James Rachels. Why Privacy is Important. Philosophy & Public Affairs. 1975.
• Optional Malcolm Browne. Harassment Alleged Over Code Research. New York Times. 1977.
• Optional Jess Weatherbed. The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption. The Verge. 2025.

CS H195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Clearview.AI: 'Access My Information'.
• Recommended [Ed post] Amy Harmon. Ideas & Trends: Privacy on Hold; Smile, You're on Candid Cellphone Camera. New York Times. 2003.
• Recommended [Ed post] Charles Duhigg. How Companies Learn Your Secrets - if too long, start reading from the word 'arrival'. The New York Times Magazine. 2012.
• Recommended [Ed post] Douglas MacMillan, Nick Anderson. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/14/colleges-quietly-rank-prospective-students-based-their-personal-data/. The Washington Post. 2019.
• Optional [Ed post] James Rachels. Why Privacy is Important. Philosophy & Public Affairs. 1975.
• Optional Malcolm Browne. Harassment Alleged Over Code Research. New York Times. 1977.
• Optional Jess Weatherbed. The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption". The New York Times. 2025.