LAW 264 - Cyber Security Seminar.

This course will examine the unique legal issues that judges, prosecutors, government and private businesses are confronting as they respond to cyber security threats. This course will consider how these entities have responded and should respond to these issues and attendant legal and policy considerations. Topics will include: privacy in cyberspace; understanding the technology; public/private cooperation and the role of the federal government; cybersecurity and the law of armed conflict; investigating and prosecuting cyber crimes; and privacy, encryption, and Internet freedom. There are no prerequisites for the course. Each student is required to participate in class sessions, write a paper on an approved topic, and make a presentation to the class on the paper. Two hours. Smith, M.