Hideyuki (“Yuki”) Matsumi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and I have significantly revised our essay, AI, Algorithms, and Awful Humans, forthcoming 92 Fordham Law Review (2024). It will be part of a Fordham Law Review symposium, The New AI: The Legal and Ethical Implications of ChatGPT and Other Emerging Technologies. In response to great feedback, we have made […]
Category: Scholarship
Posts about Privacy+Security Scholarship by Professor Daniel J. Solove for his blog at TeachPrivacy, a privacy awareness and security training company.
New Edition of Information Privacy Law Casebook – 20th Anniversary!
I am delighted to announce that the new 8th edition of my casebook, INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW, with Professor Paul Schwartz is out in print! This is a very special edition, as this year marks the 20th anniversary of the casebook. More information about the book is at the Information Privacy Law casebook website. You can […]
Personal and Sensitive Data
NOTE: This post was originally part of my special newsletter on LinkedIn – Privacy+Tech Insights. This is a different newsletter from my weekly newsletter. My LinkedIn newsletters are more infrequent and typically involve a more focused analysis of a particular issue. A quiet revolution has been going on with personal and sensitive data. There have been many notable […]
BU Law Review Symposium on Privacy Law
I will be speaking on November 3, 2023 at a Boston University Law Review symposium: Information Privacy Law at the Crossroads. From the symposium description: This symposium aims to gather leading privacy scholars to examine the current state of privacy law and theory and explore its direction. With the introduction of the first bipartisan omnibus […]
AI, Algorithms, and Awful Humans
I’m very excited to post my new short draft essay with Hideyuki (“Yuki”) Matsumi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). The essay, which is a quick read (just 19 pages), is entitled: AI, Algorithms, and Awful Humans, forthcoming 92 Fordham Law Review (2024). It will be part of a Fordham Law Review symposium, The New AI: The Legal and […]
Yale Law School Discussion of Murky Consent article
I’ll be speaking at Yale University on Tuesday, Oct 3 about my upcoming article, Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law. You can read the event description and add it to your calendar here.
BCLT Privacy Lecture on Murky Consent in Privacy Law
I’ll be speaking at Berkeley Law’s 16th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture on 9/22 about Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law with commenters, Ari Ezra Waldman (Professor, UC Irvine School of Law), Rebecca Wexler (Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law), and Ella Corren (JSD, UC Berkeley School of Law).
The Limitations of Privacy Rights
I have posted the final published version of my new article, The Limitations of Privacy Rights, 98 Notre Dame Law Review 975 (2023), on SSRN where it can be downloaded for free. The article critiques the effectiveness of individual privacy rights generally, as well as specific privacy rights such as the rights to information, access, […]
Does European Privacy Law Need a Fix?
I recently had a terrific discussion with Prof. Nikolaus Forgó from the University of Vienna. We talked about my two recent paper — on informed consent and on sensitive data. You can watch the interview on YouTube above. Both articles are available for free download below.
Event at U. Virginia Law – Examining Citron’s Book, THE FIGHT FOR PRIVACY
On Monday, February 20, 2023, I will be speaking in an event at the University of Virginia School of Law to discuss Professor Danielle Citron’s new book, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age, which makes the case for understanding intimate privacy as a civil and human right. This […]