[sudo-discuss] Online course from Stanford on Surveillance Law

[Ed Rippy]

-- Needless to say I'm not sure how far I trust this, but...
<https://www.coursera.org/course/surveillance>

[from description:] (the links aren't real here)

It’s easy to be cynical about government surveillance. In recent years, 
a parade of Orwellian disclosures have been making headlines. The FBI, 
for example, is _hacking into computers 
<http://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/> that run anonymizing 
software <http://www.wired.com/2014/08/operation_torpedo/>_. The NSA is 
vacuuming up domestic phone records 
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order>. 
Even local police departments are getting in on the act, tracking 
cellphone location history and intercepting signals in realtime 
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/08/cellphone-data-spying-nsa-police/3902809/>.

Perhaps 2014 is not quite 1984, though. This course explores how 
American law facilitates electronic surveillance—but also substantially 
constrains it. You will learn the legal procedures that police and 
intelligence agencies have at their disposal, as well as the security 
and privacy safeguards built into those procedures. The material also 
provides brief, not-too-geeky technical explanations of some common 
surveillance methods.

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The course started almost a week ago (just got the announcement!) & it's 
free.

Enjoy,
Ed

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