Posts containing Cartoons by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
Originally Posted on Substack I created this cartoon because I often hear older people scoff at how younger people don’t care about privacy because they’re exposing so much of their lives. But I find these sentiments to be chutzpah because young people are exposing their lives due to the way technology is nudging, pushing, cajoling, […]
Originally posted on Substack Here’s a new cartoon about the AI hype these days. It seems that everything involving data or an algorithm is being rebranded as AI. A while ago, I wrote about how AI is, in fact, a rebrand—one I analogized to the way fish were rebranded.
Originally posted on Substack I created this cartoon about the profound ugliness of the AI race. Tech leaders are rushing to create AI and are unleashing it upon the world far too quickly with far too few guardrails and far too little responsibility.
Originally Posted in Substack “Privacy is dead!” I’ve heard this proclamation countless times. But privacy has been dying for decades . . . and it keeps on dying. Below is my collection of eulogies for privacy, which shows that we should be skeptical of claims that privacy is dead. If we believe this, then we […]
I’m pleased to debut a new cartoon, The Privacy Compliance Easy Button. This cartoon captures the value and power of data minimization. Data minimization should be a principle that is applied throughout the entire life cycle of personal information, and data shouldn’t be retained when there is no longer a purpose for keeping it. * […]
My cartoon about cookies. Privacy law has waged war against the cookie, resulting in endless cookie banners which make a mockery of privacy. Many are dark patterns. Few achieve any purpose other than to annoy users. For more on my views about how privacy consent is broken, see my article, Murky Consent: An Approach to the […]
The federal government has been asleep at the wheel while AI spirals out of control. Instead of trying to create thoughtful regulation, Congress has made silly attempts to ban states from regulating AI. And a recent executive order by President Trump has tried to threaten states from regulating AI.
Here’s a roundup of my privacy and AI cartoons in 2025. Cartoon: Santa AI The Future of Web Surfing
My new cartoon for the holidays about replacing Santa with AI.
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.