PRIVACY + SECURITY BLOG

News, Developments, and Insights

2024 Highlights: Privacy and AI Scholarship

Here’s a roundup of my scholarship for 2024. But first, a preview of my forthcoming book (Feb 2025): ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY (Oxford University Press) – Available for Pre-Order 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. […]

Webinar – Privacy Under the Trump Administration

In this webinar, we discuss how privacy issues will fare under the upcoming Trump 2.0 Administration. What will the impact be on FTC privacy enforcement and the FTC surveillance rulemaking effort? How will HIPAA enforcement be affected? Is a federal privacy law more or less likely? What will happen to AI policy? What other privacy […]

The Tyranny of Algorithms

We live today increasingly under the tyranny of algorithms. They rule over us. They shape what we say and how we interact with each other. They shape behavior. They affect whether people get jobs and other essential things in life. And algorithms kill people. Algorithms work behind the curtains, cloaked in secrecy, often unaccountable. Algorithmic […]