It is difficult to overstate the importance of personal data to nearly every modern enterprise, from customer relationship management to health care delivery to employee recruitment. At the same time, new concerns about national security have generated intense controversies about monitoring and handling of personal data by the government.
As the collection and use of this information increases dramatically, a complex law of data privacy is emerging alongside it. Many of your clients need to understand this tangle of rules, and most of them dont. This day-long session, aimed at lawyers who are not specialists in information law, canvasses the field.
Part One of this two-part program provides a basic overview of the multiple sources of data privacy law spanning state, federal, and international law and encompassing torts, constitutional protections, statutes, and other sources. We will also touch on the special treatment of medical, financial, and political information, the radically different regulatory approach used in Europe and other countries, and some pending legislative proposals.
Professor William McGeveran specializes in information law, including intellectual property, data privacy, communications and technology, and free speech. He teaches a data privacy class and the first-year civil procedure course. Before coming to the University of Minnesota, Professor McGeveran was a resident fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, where his projects included a study of the privacy implications of new identity management initiatives on the internet. Prior to that he was litigator at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, where he worked on trademark, patent, data privacy, and trade secret matters. Professor McGeveran earned a J.D. magna cum laude from New York University and a B.A. magna cum laude in political science from Carleton College, and clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He regularly contributes to the Info/Law blog, available here
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