For all the talk about government surveillance, there’s not a lot of agreement on what is appropriate and what's stepping over the line. Enter Jonathan Mayer, who Forbes named one of its “30 Under 30” and The New York Times said can already call himself an expert on consumer privacy and government surveillance. Mayer’s now embarking on a new endeavor: He’ll teach an online law course for Stanford University on government surveillance, the first privacy course to be offered by online learning platform Coursera. “There’s a very large design space in which we could reform surveillance law,” Mayer tells Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, adding, “whether as a political matter that will happen is less clear.”
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