Recently, we’ve been witnessing the rapid spread of a deregulatory movement for privacy and AI. Spurred in significant part by the Trump Administration, the U.S. has started to deregulate technology. The EU has caught the virus and has been contemplating weaking its regulation as well. As Luiza Jarovsky notes, some policymakers in the EU are […]
My new book, ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY, discusses my reflections on 25 years of studying privacy and how privacy law and policy need a radical rethink to protect privacy in today’s age of AI. My book addresses a key question for our times: Can privacy law keep up with rapidly changing digital technologies, such as […]
I’m delighted to share the newly-published final version of my article: Artificial Intelligence and Privacy 77 Florida Law Review 1 (2025) The article aims to provide the conceptual and practical ground work for how to understand the relationship between AI and privacy as well as provide a roadmap for how privacy law should regulate AI. […]
AI presents significant challenges to privacy. How should the clash be resolved? This webinar covers the key events of 2024 and why 2025 will be a pivotal year for rewriting the rules for AI and privacy. We discussed conflicting regulatory trends, such as the dramatic rise of AI bills in the U.S. states, the increasing […]
Here’s a cartoon on AI predictions. With Hideyuki Matsumi, I have written quite critically of the use of AI algorithmic predictions for human behavior: The Prediction Society: Algorithms and the Problems of Forecasting the Future 2025 University of Illinois Law Review (forthcoming 2025) (with Hideyuki Matsumi)
Remember back in 2023, when AI company CEOs called for AI regulation? This cartoon is based on that call and what happened thereafter. In 2023, Open AI CEO Sam Altman testified before Congress about the need for AI regulation. A group of AI company leaders encouraged AI regulation in a closed-door Senate meeting. Elon Musk […]
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 […]
This year is the 20th anniversary of my first book, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy In the Information Age (NYU Press 2004) (Amazon) (free digital copy on SSRN). I thought that it would be a great opportunity to engage in a reflection on some of the points I discussed in the book. Apologies for […]
Here’s a new cartoon on AI for Halloween.
My latest cartoon – about the AI craze these days. Want More Cartoons? Subscribe to Solove’s Free Newsletter * * * * Professor Daniel J. Solove is a law professor at George Washington University Law School. Through his company, TeachPrivacy, he has created the largest library of computer-based privacy and data security training, with more […]