The MOOC Revolution: Law Schools

Wiretaps to Big Data: Privacy and Surveillance in the Age of Interconnection

School: Cornell University
Platform: edX
Link: Wiretaps to Big Data: Privacy and Surveillance in the Age of Interconnection
Start Date: March 2, 2014
Workload: 4 Hours per Week (10 Weeks)
Instructor: Stephen B. Wicker
Credentials: Dr. Wicker teaches electrical and computer engineering at Cornell, where he focuses on wireless and cellular networks and digital telephony. He is also Cornell’s principal investigator for the TRUST Science and Technology Center, whose mission is to develop new technology to protect America’s energy, health, and financial infrastructures.
Graded: Students who complete all activities and abide by the edX Honor Code will receive a personalized certificate.
Description: In this course, students will examine how cellular and digital surveillance – and the networking behind it – is shaping the technology, law, and politics of the 21st century. As part of the course, Dr. Wicker will examine the legal interpretations and tools inherent to protecting privacy – and the limits to these protections.
Review: None Available
Additional Background: edX offers a series of national security MOOCs, including Harvard’s The Central Challengs of American National Security, Strategy and the Press: An Introduction, Georgetown University’s Terrorism and Counterterrorism