Originally posted on Substack This year, in Chatrie v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether geofence warrants are valid under the Fourth Amendment. The geofence warrant at issue in the case was one that allowed the government to obtain account data from Google of hundreds of millions of users. It’s the equivalent to […]
Watch Daniel Solove’s discussion with Amelia Vance (Public Interest Privacy Center) on the latest developments in children’s privacy.
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.