Here’s a roundup of my privacy and AI scholarship in 2025. ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY Oxford University Press (2025) From the book jacket: Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today’s age of digital technologies and AI. With the rapid rise of new digital […]
Here are some notable books on Privacy, AI. and Security from 2025. For a more comprehensive list of 500+ books from the 1960s to the present, you can download my free guide, which I recently updated: Notable Privacy Books: A Journey Through History
My new cartoon on modern web surfing. These days, web traffic is increasingly bots. And the content being written is increasingly by bots. Soon, it’ll all just be bots surfing to crawl stuff from bots.
For a long time, the EU has exerted strong influence in privacy, AI, and tech regulation – the Brussels effect. But deregulatory policies from the Trump Administration in the US have started to gain footing in the EU and elsewhere. Is there a Trump Effect? If so, how strong is it? Daniel Solove interviews Professor Anu […]
My latest cartoon on privacy.
Originally posted on Substack Unfortunately, the EU might be falling for the delusion that rolling back tech regulation will result in AI suddenly sprouting from its soil. It’s magical thinking that taking a few whacks at the GDPR and AI Act will somehow conjure up AI. I see it as more akin to pulling out […]
My latest cartoon about how tech companies promote AI to regulators and to venture capitalists. It has always struck me as outrageous how tech companies so eagerly keep mentioning how their AI will eliminate jobs or potentially kill all humans. That’s not a normal way to ingratiate your technology to the world. I believe they […]
Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog discuss their article, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Privacy and Scraping, 113 Cal. L. Rev. 1521 (2025). They argue that scraping, which is essential for AI, is inconsistent with nearly all core privacy principles in privacy laws. Is there a way to reconcile scraping and privacy?
Originally posted on Substack Privacy and AI law haven’t been sitting still; there have been many new developments. Recently I had a discussion with Jodi Daniels (Red Clover Advisors) about what has been happening. Here is an excerpt from the interview. Click here to view the full discussion.
My new cartoon about online scraping. If you want to learn more about my thoughts on scraping, please download (free) my article with Professor Woodrow Hartzog, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between AI Scraping and Privacy, 113 California Law Review 1521 (2025). Also, please tune in to my upcoming online discussion with Professor Hartzog: Is […]