I’m delighted to announce that the final published version of my article, Privacy Harms, is now out in print! Privacy Harms, 101 B.U. L. Rev. 793 (2022) (with Danielle Keats Citron)
Privacy Harms – Final Published Version
Category: Harm
Posts about Privacy & Security Harm by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
Privacy Papers for Policymakers Event
I’m honored and thrilled that my article with Professor Danielle Keats Citron, Privacy Harms, 102 B.U. Law Review — (forthcoming 2022) has been selected for recognition by the Future of Privacy Forum in the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Competition. The Privacy Papers for Policymakers Event takes place on February 10, 2022 from 1 PM to 3 PM […]
Privacy Harms: A New Version
Professor Danielle Citron and I have thoroughly revised our article, Privacy Harms, forthcoming 102 B.U. Law Review __ (2022). You can download the latest draft for free on SSRN. Some of the things we updated: We reordered the piece to discuss earlier on our theory of when harm should be required. We added a discussion of […]
Standing and Privacy Harms: A Critique of TransUnion v. Ramirez
I recently published a short essay with Professor Danielle Citron critiquing the recent Supreme Court decision, TransUnion v. Ramirez (U.S. June 25, 2021) where the Court held that plaintiffs lacked standing to use FCRA’s private right of action to sue for being falsely labeled as terrorists in their credit reports. The essay is here: Daniel J. […]
Cartoon: Privacy Harms
Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, TransUnion v. Ramirez (U.S. June 25, 2021), prompted me to release this cartoon about privacy harms that I created a while ago. In TransUnion, a group of plaintiffs sued TransUnion for falsely labeling them as potential terrorists in their credit reports. The Supreme Court held that only some plaintiffs had standing […]
VIDEO: Conversation with FPF’s Jules Polonetsky
On Friday, May 28, 2021, I had a conversation with Jules Polonetsky at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) on his LinkedIn Live show. We spoke about my children’s book, THE EYEMONGER, my paper, Privacy Harms, with Professor Danielle Citron, and other things. You can watch it here.
Standing in Data Breach Cases: Why Harm Is Not “Manufactured”
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: […]
Privacy Harms
Professor Danielle Keats Citron (University of Virginia School of Law) and I have just posted a draft of our new article, Privacy Harms, on SSRN (free download). Here’s the abstract: Privacy harms have become one of the largest impediments in privacy law enforcement. In most tort and contract cases, plaintiffs must establish that they have […]
Top 10 Privacy Law Developments of the Decade 2010-2019
It is an understatement to say that a lot has happened in privacy law during the past decade. Here is my list of the most notable developments. NOTE: I am giving a particular emphasis to what I find to be notable from a United States perspective. What is notable privacy law depends upon where one […]
The Trouble with Spokeo: Standing, Privacy Harms, and Biometric Information
A recent case involving the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), Rivera v Google (N.D. Ill. No. 16 C 02714, Dec. 28, 2018), puts the ills of Spokeo Inc. v. Robins on full display. In Rivera, plaintiffs sued Google under BIPA, which prohibits companies from collecting and storing specific types of biometric data without people’s consent. The plaintiffs alleged that Google […]