The University of Akron School of Law Center for Intellectual Property Law and Technology will host a lecture by Jacqueline Lipton, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled “Mapping Online Privacy” and will be held Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 5 p.m. in Room 152 at The University of Akron School of Law, 150 University Ave., Akron, Ohio. A reception will immediately follow the lecture.
Lipton’s lecture will address the difficulties in applying existing concepts of personal privacy to the maturing Internet. With Web 2.0 technologies, more people have more opportunities to post information about themselves and others online, often with scant regard for individual privacy. Shifting notions of “reasonable expectations of privacy” in the context of blogs, wikis, and online social networks create challenges for privacy regulation. Courts and commentators struggle with Web 2.0 privacy incursions without the benefit of a clear regulatory framework.
