Posts about Privacy+Security Scholarship by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
Here’s a roundup of my scholarship for 2024. But first, a preview of my forthcoming book (Feb 2025): ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY (Oxford University Press) – Available for Pre-Order From the book jacket: Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today’s age of digital technologies and AI. […]
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 […]
Here are some notable books on privacy and security from 2024. To see a more comprehensive list of nonfiction works about privacy and security for all years, Professor Paul Schwartz and I maintain a resource page on Nonfiction Privacy + Security Books.
Information fiduciaries have emerged as a major part of the discussion of privacy regulation. In a nutshell, the information fiduciaries approach aims to apply aspects of fiduciary law to the companies that collect and use our personal data. As one court explained the fiduciary relationship: “A fiduciary relationship is one founded on trust or confidence […]
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 […]
I am excited to announce that my forthcoming book, ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY (Oxford University Press) is now available for pre-order. It will be in print in January 2025. From the book jacket: Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today’s age of […]
I’m posting a new article draft with Professor Woodrow Hartzog (BU Law), The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy. We argue that “scraping” – the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet – is in fundamental tension with privacy. Scraping is generally anathema to the core principles of privacy that […]
I’m posting the final published version of my essay with Professor Woodrow Hartzog (BU Law), Kafka in the Age of AI and the Futility of Privacy as Control, 104 B.U. L. Rev. 1021 (2024). It’s a short engaging read – just 20 pages! We argue that although Kafka shows us the plight of the disempowered […]
What is “privacy”? The concept of privacy has been elusive to define, but I developed a theory for understanding privacy about 20 years ago. Maria Angel and Ryan Calo recently published a formidable critique of my theory of privacy: Maria P. Angel and Ryan Calo, Distinguishing Privacy Law: A Critique of Privacy as Social Taxonomy, […]
I’m delighted to share the newly-published final version of my article: Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law 104 B.U. L. Rev. 593 (2024) I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article. I welcome feedback and hope […]