Posts about Surveillance by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
I have a few items of scholarship news to share. SSRN Downloads: A Personal Milestone I’m excited and grateful for this article discussing a milestone I reached by surpassing 500K SSRN downloads. The only other law professor with more than 500K downloads is Cass Sunstein. Check out the article for more details.
I just published an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled “States can fight authoritarianism by shoring up privacy laws.” Boston Globe (Dec. 23, 2024). It’s paywalled, but I’m allowed to repost it, so here it is below. I’m working on a law review article on this topic, and I hope to have a draft in the […]
A cartoon for the holidays. Additional holiday goodies: Stocking stuffer for kids (ages 7-12) – my children’s book about privacy, The Eyemonger Pre-order my new book about privacy, On Privacy and Technology (Feb. 2025) – it’s mercifully concise, about 120 pages! If you want to keep up with my writings, cartoons, events, etc., please subscribe […]
NBC Think Again did a short feature about my article, “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy.” In this interview we talk about what privacy really means and how little of it we actually have. Click here to watch this interview, or watch it in the embedded video below.
Back in 1993, Professor Oscar Gandy, Jr. wrote one of the most insightful and prescient books about privacy: The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information. Oscar Gandy is an emeritus professor with the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, having retired from active teaching in 2006. He has continued to publish in […]
Recently, Professor Scott Skinner-Thompson (Colorado Law) published an excellent thought-provoking book, Privacy at the Margins (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which explores the important role that privacy plays for marginalized groups. The book is superb, and it is receiving the highest praise from leading scholars. For example, Dean Erwin Chemerinksy (Berkeley Law) proclaims that the book […]
Professor Paul Schwartz and I recently edited the Schrems II decision for our Information Privacy Law casebook. Schrems II is short for Facebook Ireland Ltd. v. Maximillian Schrems — the second challenge by Maximillian Schrems to the transfer of data between the EU and US. In Schrems I, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) invalidated the Safe […]
Facial recognition technology involves using algorithms to identify people based on their faces. Distinctive details about people’s faces are compiled into “face templates,” which are then stored in a database and used to find facial matches, Facial recognition is quickly being deployed by many companies for various purposes, such as authenticating identity (unlocking smart phones) […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has been notoriously slow to tackle new technology. In 2002, Blackberry launched its first smart phone. On June 29, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the launch of the original Apple iPhone. But it took the Supreme Court until 2014 to decide a case involving the Fourth Amendment and smart phones – Riley […]