Legislative Engineering - Design Privacy Laws, Don't Just Draft Them - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2017

Explore innovative approaches to drafting technology legislation in this 20-minute conference talk from USENIX Enigma 2017. Discover how software engineering techniques like component-based architecture and modeling can be applied to improve the quality and effectiveness of laws addressing modern technology. Learn about the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act as an example of well-designed legislation that can serve as a "library" for future lawmakers. Examine the potential benefits of developing robust models to understand the interplay between existing laws and proposed changes. Consider how these techniques could become standard practice in legislative engineering to create more coherent, consistent, and forward-thinking technology laws.

Intro
Law is code
Legacy code
Electronic Communication Privacy Act
Law
California Privacy Act
Modularity
Modeling Mapping
Automated Testing
Coding Standards
Adversaries
Future Work
How to Help