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Jeffrey Rosen, legal affairs editor of The New Republic, will speak on "The Eroded Self: Why Privacy Matters, Particularly in Cyberspace," on Monday, Sept. 25.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St.
Rosen, a 1991 Law School graduate, is author of "The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America," a book that reveals how the right to privacy at home, at work, in court and in cyberspace has been undermined by recent legal, technological and cultural changes. Rosen shows that people have lost their ability to control how much personal information about themselves is communicated to others, why that happened and what can be done to change it. The New York Times Book Review said the book "sharpens our understanding of a problem that most of us prefer not to think about."
Changing methods of communicating through cyberspace have made once-personal communications easily monitored and searched, Rosen maintains. Email, even after it is deleted, becomes a permanent record that can be resurrected by employers or prosecutors, he points out, noting that every website or online store creates electronic footprints that can be traced back to the user. Rosen also examines the expansion of sexual harassment law that has given employers an incentive to monitor email and Internet use, and argues that some forms of offensive speech in the workplace are better conceived as invasions of privacy than examples of sex discrimination.
In addition to his position at The New Republic, Rosen is an associate professor at the George Washington University Law School. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.
Rosen's lecture is sponsored by the Knight Journalism Program at Yale Law School and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale.
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