In the wake of September 11, there is a yearning for technological solutions to our new security challenges. The federal government is enthusiastically supporting the creation of technologies to authenticate the identities of citizens and aliens, classify them according to their past behavior, and assess their future risk. Many of these technologies were developed in the corporate sector for business intelligence and are now being deployed for national intelligence. Can these technologies be designed in ways that protect liberty and security at the same time? Or are some so potentially invasive of privacy and liberty that they should be regulated strictly or resisted entirely?
Missed the talk? Listen in RealAudio format.Monday, February 4, 2002
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Room 280A
Stanford Law School
Jeffrey Rosen is an associate professor at the George Washington University Law School and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. He is also the author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America, which the New York Times called "the definitive text to privacy perils in the digital age." Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. After clerking for Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, he joined the New Republic in 1992. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and National Public Radio, he lives in Washington D.C.