Googling Strangers: One Professor’s Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces

Kate Klonick, assistant professor of law at St. John’s University, gave her students an optional assignment for spring break: Try to identify a stranger based solely on what they reveal in public. Classen Rafael / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm

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Kate Klonick, assistant professor of law at St. John’s University, gave her students an optional assignment for spring break: Try to identify a stranger based solely on what they reveal in public. Kate Klonick, assistant professor of law at St. John’s University, where Lehman studies, says she gave her students the task as an optional assignment for spring break.

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