Does your smartphone provider know too much about where you’ve been and what you’ve been doing? Should the police be able to use a GPS device to track a citizen’s movements for a month without a warrant? While companies compete to offer innovative location-based services to consumers, Congress is considering legislation aimed at protecting consumer privacy. While law enforcement agencies seek to use location data and tracking technology to solve crimes and prevent terrorism, courts are grappling with the civil liberties implications of government monitoring of citizens’ movements.
This year’s panel, moderated by Professor Katherine Strandburg, titled "You Are Here: Location Data, Tracking Technology and Consumer Privacy Law," will debate how society should balance privacy interests with desirable uses of location data, provide an update on legislative efforts to regulate commercial use of location data, and report on the November 8 Supreme Court argument in United States v. Jones, which asks whether the Fourth Amendment constrains location surveillance.
Two CLE credits are available. |