Originally posted on Substack This year’s Superbowl was a showcase for how out of touch tech companies are when it comes to privacy and AI. Several ads demonstrated that tech companies are obtuse about the dystopia they’re creating. Hopefully, public reaction will get through to policymakers that the tone deafness of tech companies reveals a […]
Watch Daniel Solove’s discussion with Melanie Ensign (Discernible) on how privacy professionals can boost their profession past its current impasse to new heights.
Originally posted on Substack The following is an excerpt from my book ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY where I summarize my thinking on privacy consent: New technologies pose significant challenges to people’s ability to consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of their personal data. Under most privacy laws, consent makes permissible a wide array of data collection […]
Here’s a bizarre dystopian Superbowl commercial where AIexa+ tries to kill Chris Hemsworth many different ways, then offers him a massage. And this is to try to convince folks that AI is good? I thought it was a promo for a Black Mirror episode. <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ha92_hfK9Po?si=ka8ErdwxqU_evaIs” title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; […]
It’s gratifying to see a Chronicle of Higher Education editor recall a piece I wrote there 15 years ago — though I wish the remembrance was for less ominous reason. He concludes: “It appears that the moment he warned us about has arrived.” My Chronicle of Higher Ed piece is based on my article, “I’ve […]
Watch Daniel Solove’s discussion with Adam Greene (Davis Wright Tremaine) about the latest developments in HIPAA and Health Privacy.
My cartoon about cookies. Privacy law has waged war against the cookie, resulting in endless cookie banners which make a mockery of privacy. Many are dark patterns. Few achieve any purpose other than to annoy users. For more on my views about how privacy consent is broken, see my article, Murky Consent: An Approach to the […]
I’m very excited to share with you the final published version of my article, Privacy in Authoritarian Times: Surveillance Capitalism and Government Surveillance, 67 Boston College Law Review 51 (2026). You can download the article for free on SSRN.
Originally posted on Substack It’s Data Privacy Day, though it’s now been expanded to data privacy week. Things are quite turbulent for privacy these days, so we need to celebrate less and focus on how to respond to the challenges ahead. Based on my anecdotal assessment, the CPO and DPO roles seem to have expanded […]
Originally posted on Substack We’ve now closed the books on 2025, so it’s time to review what happened in privacy law over the past year. At first glance, it seems like a quiet year (no new state consumer privacy laws) but quite a lot happened. Many smaller things, but they really add up. Here’s a […]