As there are tons of new scholarly works in the privacy law field each year, I thought it might be useful to point out a few books and articles that I found particularly interesting and useful from the past year. This post will cover only those books and articles published in 2006.
BOOKS
JIM HARPER, IDENTITY CRISIS: HOW IDENTIFICATION IS OVERUSED AND MISUNDERSTOOD (2006)
— an interesting examination of identification
JACQUELINE KLOSEK, THE WAR ON PRIVACY (2006)
— provides a useful survey of post-9/11 legal developments in countries around the world
ROBERT O’HARROW, NO PLACE TO HIDE (2006)
— a very interesting account of how data mining companies work
ERIC A. POSNER & ADRIAN VERMEULE, TERROR IN THE BALANCE: SECURITY, LIBERTY, AND THE COURTS (2006)
— I disagree with nearly everything Posner and Vermeule say, but this book is provocative and powerfully-argued
RICHARD A. POSNER, NOT A SUICIDE PACT: THE CONSTITUTION IN A TIME OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY (2006)
— I don’t agree with most of Posner’s arguments, but the book is a quick and interesting read
BRUCE SCHNEIER, BEYOND FEAR: THINKING SENSIBLY ABOUT SECURITY IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD (2006)
— a wise and insightful examination of security and privacy issues regarding terrorism
ANDREW E. TASLITZ, RECONSTRUCTING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: A HISTORY OF SEARCH AND SEIZURE, 1789-1868 (2006)
— a terrific historical study of the Fourth Amendment
— very useful treatise on privacy law
ARTICLES
Marc Jonathan Blitz, Constitutional Safeguards For Silent Experiments in Living Libraries, the Right to Read, and a First Amendment Theory for an Unaccompanied Right to Receive Information, 74 U. Mo. Kan. City L. Rev. 799 (2006)
— the article is quite long, but there are some good ideas in it
Laura K. Donohue, Anglo-American Privacy and Surveillance, 96 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1059 (2006)
— another very long article, but is very useful for its extensive detail
Eric Goldman, A Coasean Analysis of Marketing, 2006 Wis. L. Rev. 1151 (2006)
— I disagree a lot with this article, which contains a partial defense of spam, but Goldman is always interesting and thoughtful
Stephen E. Henderson, Learning From All Fifty States: How to Apply the Fourth Amendment and Its State Analogs to Protect Third Party Information From Unreasonable Search, 55 Cath. U. L. Rev. 373 (2006)
— this article is a very helpful analysis of how each state has addressed the third party doctrine in its constitutional law
Elizabeth E. Joh, Reclaiming “Abandoned” DNA: The Fourth Amendment and Genetic Privacy, 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 857 (2006)
— this article engages in a thoughtful analysis of a very interesting issue
Andrew J. McClurg, Kiss and Tell: Protecting Intimate Relationship Privacy Through Implied Contracts of Confidentiality, 74 U. Cin. L. Rev. 887 (2006)
— McClurg does a nice job analyzing the breach of confidentiality tort
Neil M. Richards, The Information Privacy Law Project, 94 Geo. L.J. 1087 (2006)
— Richards critiques my book, The Digital Person, and offers many interesting ideas in this essay
I cannot resist mentioning that I wrote two articles pertaining to privacy in 2006: Daniel J. Solove & Chris Jay Hoofnagle, A Model Regime of Privacy Protection, 2006 U. Ill. L. Rev. 357 (2006), and Daniel J. Solove, A Taxonomy of Privacy, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 477 (2006).
Originally Posted at Concurring Opinions
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