Lawprofs, a niche tweet: I teach a class that covers things like algorithms, privacy, etc. Yesterday we discussed smart cities and what that will mean for my students who will be living in them, presumably when they're in solid middle age. 1/
So many questions: like data collection/use/retention/access/monetization. They should be interested and they are. But thinking back, why is this just an "information privacy law" topic? You take this class b/c you are interested in "tech" issues. 2/
But the truth is that a lot of lawyers working in the public sector will have to think about what all of this means and how to anticipate the issues. How to fold in algorithms with contracting questions, network security & legacy systems, etc. 3/
You won't be the "tech lawyer," but you'll be city counsel trying to figure out what this means, or partner/associate contracted to be city counsel for the smallish city, not SF/LA/NYC/BOS. Need to do a better job of incorporating these issues into the more standard classes /end.
lol i don't use medium so this is the best i can do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
