CYBS3170-A Cyberlaw (Spring 2024)

Course Details

Session, Dates: 1 (01/16/2024 - 05/03/2024)
Days: M W
Time: 02:00 - 03:15 pm
Location: Moon Campus
Room: Wheatley Center 113
Seats Available: 7 Seats
Credits: 3

Course Description

This course examines how laws have had to change to account for the expanded realm of crimes in the digital age. Identity theft has become far too commonplace; it takes victims of identity theft hundreds of hours over a four to six month period. In October of 1998, Congress enacted the necessary legal countermeasures to battle the growing problem of identity theft. Sexual harassment complaints can now be triggered simply by an employee forwarding questionable email to fellow employees. Some regard intellectual property rights violations to be innocent flattery, while others consider them to be violations that must be stamped out by force of law. Plagiarism by students who pull content from the Internet is a growing problem. Stalkers can log into their victims lives and gain access to highly confidential medical and financial information, and even sabotage their victim's reputations. This course examines current literature on such topics.

Course Materials

About the Instructor(s)

Karen L. Paullet, D.Sc.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Information Systems and Communications
School of Informatics, Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor of Computer and Information Systems
Computer and Information Systems

paullet@rmu.edu
412-397-6051 phone
412-397-6468 fax
Wheatley Center 229
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