Who Are the Privacy and Security Cops on the Beat?
by Daniel J. Solove Are privacy and security laws being enforced effectively? This post is post #3 of a series called Enforcing Privacy and Security Laws.
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The Privacy Pillory and the Security Rack: The Enforcement Toolkit
by Daniel J. Solove Are privacy and security laws being enforced effectively? This post is post #2 in a series called Enforcing Privacy and Security Laws. See the end of this post for links to other posts in this series. What kind of sanctions do privacy and security laws use for enforcement? In this post, […]
Why Enforce Privacy and Security Laws?
by Daniel J. Solove PART 1 Are privacy and security laws being enforced effectively? This post is part of a series called Enforcing Privacy and Security Laws. How are privacy and security laws enforced? How should they be enforced? What enforcement works well? What doesn’t? What are the various agencies that are enforcing privacy laws […]
Jennifer Lawrence’s Nude Photos and Civil Rights Law: An Interview with Danielle Citron
“It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change.” — Jennifer Lawrence on her nude photos being non-consensually disclosed online Fairly recently, Jennifer Lawrence’s iCloud account was hacked and her private nude photos were stolen and posted online. She was mortified. Her case is just one […]
Why Being Well-Regulated Is Good for Business
by Daniel J. Solove After Apple announced that it wouldn’t provide law enforcement with an easy back door to access data on people’s devices, we heard loud whining coming from the FBI and various security proponents that this would be bad for security.
The Best Preventative Medicine for Health Data Breaches
by Daniel J. Solove Last week, I gave a keynote address at a conference called Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security, sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR). I’d like to summarize my remarks here for […]
How to Enter the Privacy Profession
by Daniel J. Solove The privacy profession is growing by leaps and bounds, but entering it is tricky. My law students and others frequently ask me how they can enter the privacy field. Most jobs seem to require a few years of experience, but the privacy profession is still relatively new, and getting this experience […]
The Underappreciated Factor for Success
by Daniel J. Solove Ask people what the key factor for success is, and they’ll provide the typical answers: skill, luck intelligence . . . These things are often keys to success.
Big Myths About Big Data
by Daniel J. Solove The FTC held a workshop this Monday about Big Data. The term “Big Data” is used everywhere these days, and depending upon who is talking about it, Big Data is either the hippest thing in the world and the producer of miracles that will save the human race, or it is […]
Why Do Lawsuits for Data Breaches Continue Even Though the Law Is Against Plaintiffs?
by Daniel J. Solove If there’s a big data breach, the class action lawyers will start nipping like a bunch of hungry crocodiles. Upwards of forty separate lawsuits were filed against Target after its data breach, and one was filed the day after the breach became public knowledge. The law, however, has thus far been […]