CPSC610: Topics in Computer Science and Law
Time: Wed, 3:30 to 5:20 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Instructor: Joan
Feigenbaum
TF: Anat Lior
Assistant: Judi Paige (AKW 507A, Judi.Paige@yale.edu, 203-436-1267)
Course Description
CPSC 610 is a graduate seminar that focuses on socio-technical
problems in computing, i.e.,
problems that cannot be solved through technological progress alone but rather
require legal, political, or cultural progress as well. Examples include but
are not limited to computer security, intellectual property protection, cyber
crime, cyber war, surveillance, and online privacy. The course is addressed to
graduate students in Computer Science who are interested in socio-technical
issues but whose undergraduate work may not have addressed them; it is designed to bring these students rapidly to the point at which they can do research on
socio-technical problems. Students present and discuss papers from the
literature in class, do term projects (either papers or software
artifacts), and present their projects at the end of the term.
Enrollment limit
In order to ensure that there is enough time for both midterm feedback on
project proposals and in-class presentation of the finished projects,
enrollment is limited to fifteen. If fewer than fifteen Computer Science
graduate students enroll, Yale College undergraduates will be allowed to
enroll with permission of the instructor.
Prerequisites
The basics of cryptography and computer security (as covered in CPSC 467),
networks (as covered in CPSC 433), and databases (as covered in CPSC 437),
or permission of the instructor.
Reading list for the Spring 2021 offering of CPSC 610
- Hany Farid, Reining in Online Abuses
- Matthew Green, Can end-to-end encrypted systems detect child
sexual abuse imagery?
- Alan Z. Rozenshtein, The
Revised EARN IT Act Proposes a Better Process for Encryption Policy
- Alan Z. Rozenshtein, Surveillance Intermediaries
- Stefan Savage, Lawful
Device Access without Mass Surveillance Risk: A Technical Design Discussion
-
Mayank Varia, A Roadmap for Exceptional Access Research
- Ignacio Cofone, Nothing to Hide, but Something to Lose
- Elizabeth E. Joh, The New Surveillance Discretion:
Automated Suspicion, Big Data, and Policing
- Kate Klonick, The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes
Governing Online Speech. Sections I, III and IV are required reading;
the rest of the article is optional.
- Kate Klonick, Inside the Making of Facebook's
Supreme Court
- Evelyn Douek, Facebook's ``Oversight Board'': Mover Fast with Stable
Infrastructure and Humility
- Robert Gorwa, Reuben Binns, and Christian Katzenbach,
Algorithmic
content moderation: Technical and political challenges in the automation of
platform governance
- Reddit AutoModerator
. Homepage and ``Writing Basic Rules'' are required reading; the rest of
the AutoModerator site is optional.
- Shagun Jhaver, Iris Birman, Eric Gilbert, and Amy Bruckman,
Human-Machine Collaboration
for Content Regulation: The Case of Reddit Automoderator
- Kaitlin Mahar, Amy Zhang, and David Karger,
Squadbox:
A Tool to Combat Email Harassment Using Friendsourced Moderation
- Amy Zhang, Grant Hugh, and Michael Bernstein,
PolicyKit: Building Governance in
Online Communities
- Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Chaitrali Gandhi, Matthew Wortley Mustelier, and
Eric Gilbert.
Crossmod: A Cross-Community Learning-based System to Assist Reddit
Moderators. Sections 1, 3, 4 and 5 are required;
all other sections are optional.
- Solon Barocas and Andrew D. Selbst, Big Data's Disparate Impact
- Cynthia Dwork, Moritz Hardt, Toniann Pitassi, Omer Reingold, and Richard
Zemel, Fairness
Through Awareness
- Katharine Trendacosta, Unfiltered:
How YouTube's Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See
Online
- Niva Elkin-Koren, Making Room for Consumers Under the DMCA
- Oona A. Hathaway, Rebecca Crootof, Philip Levitz, Haley Nix,
Aileen Nowlan, William Perdue, and Julia Spiegel, The
Law of Cyber-Attack. Sections I and II are mandatory reading.
Skim Chapter III. The rest of the article is recommended but optional.
- Ralph Langner, To Kill a Centrifuge
- Nolen Scaife, Christian Peeters, and Patrick Traynor, Fear the Reaper:
Characterization and Fast Detection of Card Skimmers Watch the video
of this conference presentation. A PDF of the paper is also available on the
webpage, but you are not required to read it.
Final papers
Nine of the students in CPSC 610 this semester agreed to have their final
papers posted on this site.
- Emmanuel Adeniran,
Challenges of
Cross-National Legal Regimes: An Effort at Restructuring the Balance of
Power during Data Breach and Loss of Privacy in the US
- Katherine Arackaparambil,
Deep Fakes:
Potential Benefits, Concerns, Privacy, and Legal Regulations
- Aidan Evans,
Automatic Content
Moderation in Real-Time Communities
- Cecily Gao,
Section 230: Past,
Present, and Future
- Ramla Ijaz,
Lawful Access: A
Survey of Proposed Protocols
- Emily Ji,
Regulating Deepfakes
in the United States
- Alicia Kacharia,
International
Approaches to COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
- Vijay Keswani,
Fair Machine
Learning and Anti-subordination
- Isabel Salinas-Arreola,
The DMCA
and Consumer-Based Copyright: An Analysis of Fair Use, Liability, and
Anti-Circumvention