Faculty Profile
Fred H. Cate
Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, and Director, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
- Contact Information
- fcate
[at]
indiana
[dot]
edu
- (812) 855-1161
- Law Building 319
- Education
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A.B. at Stanford University, 1984
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J.D. at Stanford University, 1987
- Courses
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Communications Law (B646)
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Information Privacy Law (B708)
- Information Security Law (B587)
- Information Technology Essentials for Lawyers (B548)
- Seminar in Communication Law (L716)
- Seminar in Information Law (L716)
In the News
Background
- Member of Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford University; book review editor for the Stanford Law Review
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals (2005-present)
- Reporter for American Law Institute project on Principles of the Law of Government Access to and Use of Digital Information (2006-present)
- Member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board (2003-present)
- Reporter to the Department of Defense Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee (2003-04)
- Member , Privacy and Information Law Report Board of Editors (2000-present)
- Member if the Federal Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security (2000)
- Member of the United Nations Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications and principal drafter of the Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunications Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations (1994-2002).
Biography
Professor Cate specializes in information privacy and security law issues. He speaks frequently about these issues before industry, professional, and government groups and testifies regularly before Congress.
He is a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals, and the Research Steering Committee of the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection. He also serves as reporter for the American Law Institute's project on Principles of the Law on Government Access to and Use of Personal Digital Information.
Cate is the author of many books and articles, including The Internet and the First Amendment, Privacy in the Information Age, and Privacy in Perspective, and he appears frequently in the popular press.
Selected Works
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The Privacy Problem: A Broader View of Information Privacy and the Costs and Consequences of Protecting It (2003).
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Privacy in Perspective (2001).
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Data and Democracy (2001).
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Mass Media Law (6th edition) (2000) (with Marc Franklin and David Anderson).
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The Internet and the First Amendment: Schools and Sexually Explicit Expression (1998). Selected for the 35th annual Choice Outstanding Academic Books list by the Association of College and Research Libraries (1998).
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Privacy in the Information Age (1997). Honorable Mention as the Association of American Publishers Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Best New Book in Law (1997). Selected for the 35th annual Choice Outstanding Academic Books list by the Association of College and Research Libraries (1998). Second Printing (1998). Translated into Arabic and republished by Al Ahram press (2002).
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Visions of the First Amendment for a New Millennium (1992) (editor and contributor).
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