Posts about Data Security by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
I’m delighted to announce that my new book, Breached!, with Professor Woodrow Hartzog is now out in print: BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press, March 1, 2022) Website for Breached! Breached! Amazon Page Excerpt from the book jacket description: Drawing insights from many fascinating stories about data breaches, Solove […]
Privacy law compliance and data breach response involve tasks of great complexity and scale that can quickly overwhelm an organization’s privacy team. Technologies have emerged to automate these tasks, but there are many decisions to make about which tasks to automate and which solutions to use. I recently had a chance to chat with Andy Lunsford is […]
Recently, I spoke with Emma Martins, Data Protection Commissioner at Guernsey’s Office of the Data Protection Authority as part of their Project Bijou. We spoke about a number of topics, including the effect of the GDPR and my new children’s book about privacy, The Eyemonger. You can watch the video of our conversation here.
I had the great opportunity to interview Mahmood Sher-Jan about new developments in data incident response. Mahmood Sher-Jan, CHPC, is the Founder and CEO of RadarFirst, a company dedicated to applying innovation and software technology to address the growing data privacy and security challenges faced by organizations that maintain regulated personal data. He holds patents in incident management, fraud prevention, […]
On this podcast, Info Matters, I chat with Patricia Kosseim, Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario, Canada about kids and privacy and my children’s book on privacy, THE EYEMONGER. Episode Summary: Parents, kids, teachers, this one’s for you! Explaining privacy in a way that kids can understand — concepts and tools you can use […]
I will be having a LinkedIn Live session on Tuesday, May 11, at 1 PM Eastern: Dark Patterns: A Conversation with Elena Elkina, Alexandra Ross, and Daniel Solove Tuesday, May 11 at 1 PM Eastern I’ll be speaking with: Elena Elkina Elena is a a co-founder of Aleada Consulting, a woman and minority owned privacy […]
I will be speaking on May 19th at 4:30pm EST at a virtual book reading of my children’s book, THE EYEMONGER. The event is hosted by the World Bank Data Privacy Office and the World Bank Group Family Network. How to Be a Privacy Superhero: Defeating Spooky Eyes and Internet Spies Virtual Book Reading of […]
In a recent case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit weighed in on an issue that has continued to confound courts: Is there an injury caused by a data breach when victims don’t immediately suffer financial fraud? I wrote on this issue in an article with Professor Danielle Citron in 2018, Risk and Anxiety: […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit just issued a blistering attack on HIPAA enforcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer v. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 19-60226, Jan. 14, 2021), the 5th Circuit struck down a fine and enforcement […]
Here are some of highlights of my privacy training, writing, resources, and humor from 2020.