Session 2b: Confidentiality, Privacy, and the Ethics of Social Data
- Lecture Notes (powerpoint) (PDF)
- Assigned Readings
- Cornell's University Committee on Human Subjects
- U.S. Code Title 13: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode13/usc_sup_01_13.html
- U.S. Code Title 26: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sup_01_26.html
- Privacy Act (1974): http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/privstat.htm
- Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA, 2002)
- U.S. Code Title 44 (Chapter 35): http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode44/usc_sup_01_44_10_35.html
- Assigned Tasks
- Background Readings and Materials
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study: http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/tuskegee.html
- Eugenics: http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
- French Census 1941: Adler, K. H. Vichy Specificities: Repositioning the French Past, Contemporary European History, 9, 3 (2000), pp. 475-488 (available online at subscribing libraries).
- U.S. Census and Japanese Internment: Mayer, T. S. Census Bureau Research Report Series (Survey Methodology #2002-01) "Privacy and Confidentiality Research and the U.S. Census Bureau Recommendations Based on a Review of the Literature"
- Private Lives and Public Choices: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309047439/html/index.html