PRIVACY + SECURITY BLOG

News, Developments, and Insights

Data Is What Data Does: Regulating Use, Harm, and Risk Instead of Sensitive Data

I posted a draft of my new article, Data Is What Data Does: Regulating Use, Harm, and Risk Instead of Sensitive Data. It is just a draft, and I welcome feedback. You can download it for free here: Here’s the abstract: Heightened protection for sensitive data is becoming quite trendy in privacy laws around the […]

2022 Highlights: Scholarship and Writings

Here’s a roundup of my scholarship and writings for 2022. SCHOLARSHIP BOOKS  BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford U. Press 2022) (with Woodrow Harzog) Free chapter: Unifying Privacy and Data Security PRIVACY LAW FUNDAMENTALS (IAPP 6th ed. 2022) (with Paul Schwartz) Free chapter: An Overview of Privacy Law

Webinar – Fight for Privacy in a Post-Dobbs World

This webinar focused on themes from Danielle Citron’s new book, The Fight for Privacy: online harassment and hate, Section 230, and how privacy invasions disproportionately are targeted at women. We discussed the implications of Dobbs, where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion. As Elizabeth Joh points out in a recent article, the […]

Cybersecurity and Data Security: What Every Lawyer Should Know

I was recently on a terrific panel called Cybersecurity and Data Security: What Every Lawyer Should Know held by Penn State Dickinson Law.  The program focused on the latest developments in cybersecurity and data privacy. The panel was moderated by Professor Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn St. Dickinson Law. […]

Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It

I recently gave a talk on Faculti about ideas in my recent book, BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press 2022), about how major security breaches could be prevented through new approaches to data security law.  The Faculti platform provides a library of 8,000 video and audio insights […]